Brandon Mcconnell
Senior Frontend Engineer at Mintlify
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Mcconnell is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in San Francisco with 17 years in software and 11 years of focused engineering experience shipping production-grade web interfaces. He blends UI/UX design sensibility with hands-on front-end architecture, having led rebrands, complex table/portlet systems, and territory mapping features at H1 and driven e-commerce and conversion improvements across multiple retail and marketing platforms. As a founding engineer at CopilotKit he helped define AG-UI protocols and developer ergonomics for AI-native interfaces, and now contributes to documentation tooling at Mintlify to empower developer workflows at scale. He’s comfortable owning both product-facing UX details and the infrastructure that keeps components stable and performant, from TypeScript APIs to cross-domain integrations and blue-green deployments. Known for rapid iteration in agile teams, Brandon also brings client-facing experience and pragmatic documentation practices that smooth onboarding and adoption. Beyond code, he repeatedly improves conversion and performance metrics, demonstrating a rare mix of design-driven thinking and measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
15 College Credits, Business & Philosophy, 15 College Credits, Business & Philosophy at Union UniversityAssociate of Arts (AA), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies, Associate of Arts (AA), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies at Broward CollegeLeadership Certification, Business / Philosophy, Leadership Certification, Business / Philosophy at Impact 360 – Gap YearHigh School Disploma, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, High School Disploma, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at College Academy At Broward CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Korean
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
animated10
stylus10
svg10
visual-studio10
web-development10
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safari10
browser10
firefox10
html10
feather10
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radix-ui10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
brandonmcconnell/tailwindcss-directional-shadows
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
Extend TailwindCSS to support directional shadows
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 year 6 months
functionslinearshadowtailwindtailwindcss
brandonmcconnell/tailwindcss-lerp-colors
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Interpolate between defined colors in Tailwind config for additional color stops (e.g. red-425). Built with chroma.js.
Contributions:6 releases, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
chromacolor-modecolor-modescolor-spacecolor-spaces
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