Craig Kovatch
Principal Software Engineer Iconic Emoji Artisan at Tableau Software
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Kovatch is a Principal Software Engineer at Tableau with a decade of experience building developer-facing web UI libraries and front-end infrastructure consumed by 150+ internal packages. He leads full lifecycle development of high-quality, accessible (WCAG 2.0) and localized UI primitives that accelerate product delivery—most recently enabling Tableau Prep’s rapid V1 launch—while preserving strict backwards compatibility. A subject-matter expert in CSS, React, and TypeScript, he champions best practices in versioning, dependency management, CI, and interactive documentation, and mentors teams across the company. His background includes significant accessibility work retrofitting legacy code for screen readers and inventing practical solutions for remote font rendering, and he also contributes thoughtfully to open-source TypeScript/React ARIA typings. Based in Seattle, he blends deep engineering craft with cross-cultural fluency in Japanese and a lighthearted creative streak (he’s the inventor of the :vaccineda: emoji).
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Technical Japanese, BS Computer Science Technical Japanese at University of WashingtonJapanese International Studies, Japanese International Studies at Ritsumeikan University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (190)
dependabot10
experiences10
testing10
typescript-definitions10
look-and-feel10
cross-reference10
declarative10
maven10
collaboration10
tableau10
javascript10
type-check10
jquery10
browser10
voiceover10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tableau/tableau-ui
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
React UI components that have the look-and-feel of Tableau.
Contributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 2 months
lookreactlook-and-feeltableau-wdctableau-dashboards
craigkovatch/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 year 5 months
type-definitionshigh-qualitydefinitionstypescriptquality
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