Delmer Reed
Software Engineer at HockeyStack
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDelmer Reed is a software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications and observability tooling. He has strong front-end and full-stack chops, having contributed significant UI/UX refinements and performance improvements to high-profile open-source projects like InfluxDB and Chronograf. His work there centered on enhancing dashboards, query editors, and real-time visualization—areas that require both polish and attention to performance. Delmer’s background includes roles at ngrok and HockeyStack, plus years teaching web development, which sharpened his ability to explain complex ideas and ship reliable features. Trained in mathematics at UCLA, he blends analytical rigor with practical engineering to simplify developer and user workflows. Notably, he tends to improve developer productivity as well as end-user experience, often addressing subtle UI and tooling gaps that others overlook.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, French
Github Skills (14)
ux-design10
uid10
javascript10
user-interface10
user-experience10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
codemirror10
react10
flux9
fluxor9
visualization8
visualizations8
go4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/chronograf
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Open source monitoring and visualization UI for the TICK stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:254 commits, 137 PRs, 329 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Delmer made several contributions focused on enhancing the user interface and core functionality within the Chronograf project. They updated the Flux query editor by adding a feature that displays and hides template variables using ReactCodeMirror. Additional work involved implementing and improving the display of query results, and correcting UI styling related to code rendering and copy functionality. They also modified the time series chart with improved performance.
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influxdata/influxdb
Jun 2018 - Jul 2019
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 205 commits, 148 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Delmer primarily contributed to the front-end user interface of InfluxDB, focusing on the application's UI and UX. Their work included refactoring components, adding new functionality to the log viewer, and updating the code for the new dashboards page. The user also worked on implementing inline labels for the telegraf config and dashboard, and added features to enhance user experience.
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