Craig Brunner
Principal Engineer - Operate
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Brunner is a Principal Engineer based in San Jose with a track record of designing and shipping consumer-grade web experiences and platform tooling at companies like Shopify, ServiceNow, Amazon Lab126, and Apple. He thrives on solving hard architectural problems across the full stack—especially building modern web UIs with React/GraphQL and optimizing native-like experiences on Chromium-based platforms. Known for mentoring teams and translating merchant and enterprise needs into scalable product solutions, he blends hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership. A lifelong tech enthusiast, he pairs curiosity about emerging technologies with practical experience in Rails, JRuby, WebGL/ThreeJS, and big-data integrations. Notably, his work at Lab126 included maintaining the Web App Starter Kit for FireTV, reflecting a long-running focus on developer experience and cross-platform web apps.
2 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Galena High SchoolBachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at University of Puget Sound
Github Skills (11)
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
react9
shopify9
typescript9
cjs9
figma-plugin9
react-modal9
shopify-api8
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Shopify/polaris
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 13 days
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
Shopify/quilt
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Contributions:2 reviews in 1 month
react-modaljavascriptshopify-apijavascript-typescriptcjs
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