Christian De Botton
Software Engineer at The Browser Company
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristian De Botton is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building front-end platforms, developer tooling, and product features for companies like Vimeo and The Browser Company. As a Senior Principal Engineer at Vimeo he led the frontend platform team, driving design systems, accessible performant UIs, and frameworks that power large-scale web products. He blends deep practical expertise in TypeScript, React, Svelte, PHP, Rust and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) with a knack for developer experience—evidenced by contributions improving type safety to the popular react-spring animation library. A committed mentor and organizer, he has coached engineers through formal programs and weekly best-practice sessions, and enjoys partnering with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems. Based in San Francisco, he brings a creative background in design and media to pragmatic engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Marketing, Design, Japanese, BA, Marketing, Design, Japanese at New York UniversityHorace Greeley High School
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (8)
type-system10
typescript10
typesc10
typescripts10
animation10
react10
typescript-types10
animate10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pmndrs/react-spring
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
✌️ A spring physics based React animation library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the `react-spring` library by making several changes to the type definitions. Their work primarily involved refining the type safety and developer experience of the interpolation functions and related types. Specific changes included correcting generics, removing unnecessary type constraints, and adding comments to enhance code clarity. The user also excluded reserved props from the `SetUpdateFn` to improve type correctness.
physicsreactreact-springanimationspring
cdebotton/pruno
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:114 commits, 104 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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