Corey Snyder
Engineering Manager II at Root Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Snyder is an Engineering Manager II based in Baltimore with 13 years of hands-on experience and a 15+ year background in front-end engineering, UX, and Node.js API development. He blends people leadership—onboarding, hiring, and mentoring engineers—with technical ownership of architecture, tooling, and cross-functional delivery at scale. Deep expertise in React, Angular, TypeScript, CSS toolchains and Webpack is matched by a history of modernizing front-end stacks, building scaffolding tools, and reducing security vulnerabilities from hundreds to zero. An active contributor to Foundation Sites, he’s improved dropdown and sticky behaviors and refactored mutation observers to better handle dynamic DOM changes. He pairs product-minded interaction design sensibilities with pragmatic engineering, having led rewrites of hundreds of React Native screens and built UI libraries that serve dozens of applications. Known as a creative thinker and experience director, he favors systems that help teams move faster while preserving UX integrity.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering Technology, Software Engineering at DeVry University
Github Skills (6)
dom-manipulation10
responsive-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
css9
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/foundation-sites
Oct 2014 - Jun 2018
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 19 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to the Foundation Sites framework, focusing on the `foundation.dropdown.js` and `foundation.sticky.js` components. Their commits involved fixing boundary issues, improving responsiveness, and addressing medium grid breakpoint issues. They also refactored the DOM mutation observer to trigger events for elements that "change on the fly." The contributions involved modifying JavaScript code, improving the behavior of the dropdown and sticky features, and optimizing for responsiveness.
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
coreysyms/starter-kit
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Boilerplate for Nuxt + Contentful
Contributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
contentfulboilerplatenuxt-modulesnuxtnuxt-template
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