Caleb Pollman
Senior Frontend Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Pollman is a Senior Frontend Engineer with a decade of experience designing API interfaces, developer experience, and frontend platform tools for the modern web, currently at AWS in Seattle. He specializes in accessible, themeable React component work—demonstrated by notable contributions to Amplify UI and Amplify JS, where he improved TypeScript defaults, consolidated event handling, and fixed UX issues across web and React Native. Caleb blends product-minded front-end engineering with a focus on developer ergonomics and code quality, routinely adding linting and refactors that make large component libraries more maintainable. His background in UX/UI and freelance work gives him a pragmatic eye for shipping polished interfaces, and he’s known for quietly improving authentication flows and picker integrations that users rely on.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting, Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Github Skills (15)
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javascript10
component-kit10
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react-native10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
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typescript-types10
aws-amplify10
ui-components10
amplify9
amazon-cognito5
pwapp5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-ui
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Amplify UI is a collection of accessible, themeable, performant React (and more!) components that can connect directly to the cloud.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3915 reviews, 282 commits, 1204 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily contributed to the `amplify-ui` repository by implementing and modifying React components. Their work involved adding default TypeScript generic values, consolidating event handlers, and refactoring Authenticator-related components. The user's contributions also include fixing UI rendering issues and improving code quality with additional linting rules, specifically within the React-based components.
themeablereactaccessiblevuedesign-system
aws-amplify/amplify-js
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:328 reviews, 109 commits, 81 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Caleb primarily contributed to the React Native components within the `aws-amplify-js` repository, focusing on the user interface and user experience. They fixed a bug in the sign-in process by disabling the sign-in button during the authentication request. Further contributions involved updating and adding linting rules to improve code quality in the React Native component. Finally, the user migrated the project to use the community picker for a component within the React Native UI.
pwaamazon-cognitoawsaws-mobilestorage
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