Brian Mitchell
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Mitchell is a Senior Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with 11 years building customer-facing web applications, specializing in React and TypeScript. He has driven architecture and developer experience improvements at C.H. Robinson—introducing React hooks, React Testing Library, modern frontend tooling, and shared libraries for analytics and authentication. A prolific front-end contributor, he’s worked on open-source React components for polished loading placeholders and champions accessibility, testing, and styling in his craft. He co-organizes JavaScriptMN and writes engineering content, blending technical leadership with hands-on implementation and mentorship across teams. An early background in systems administration and event production gives him a practical, operational perspective on reliability and user-facing polish.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DIS - Danish Institute for Study AbroadBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Minnesota-Morris
Danish, English
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Github Skills (10)
component-development10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
react-bootstrap-typeahead6
homebrew6
macos6
angularjs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
buildo/react-placeholder
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
A React component to easily replicate your page with nice placeholders while the content is loading
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 23 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of a React component for displaying placeholders while content loads. They focused on implementing and testing placeholder components such as text, media, and round shapes. Their work involved converting existing components to functional components and refactoring code to improve type safety and remove prop-types. Additionally, they added and expanded unit tests to ensure the correct rendering and behavior of these placeholder components.
react-componentreact-modalreacteditableis-loading
BrianMitchL/gift-exchange
Nov 2018 - Feb 2025
🎁 A library to generate unbiased pairs of names for a gift exchange or secret santa.
Contributions:8 releases, 30 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 years 3 months
gift-exchangeexchangesantaunbiasedsecret
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