Dillon Kearns
Elm Trainer, Founder at Dillon Kearns Agile Consulting
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolDillon Kearns is a founder and Elm trainer with 13 years of engineering and Agile coaching experience, helping teams migrate from legacy front-end stacks to highly reliable Elm applications. He combines hands-on open-source development—authoring projects like elm-graphql and elm-pages—with organizational coaching to introduce Elm incrementally and sustainably. His background as an XP/Agile coach and Scrum Master informs a pragmatic, test-driven approach to adoption that reduces risk and teaches teams new practices as they go. Based in Santa Barbara, he blends full‑stack engineering experience (client and server features, build tooling, and CI) with facilitation skills to drive measurable process change. Notably, his work on elm-graphql automates type-safe GraphQL interactions in Elm, reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics as well as runtime correctness.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (19)
testing10
forms10
elm10
use-form10
mocking10
web-framework10
eforms10
back-end-development9
url-routing9
front-end-development9
android9
documentation9
vector6
elisp6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dillonkearns/elm-pages
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Hybrid Elm framework with full-stack and static routes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 4682 commits, 234 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dillon made several commits focused on enhancing the hybrid Elm framework. Their work includes addressing errors in the Tailwind CSS page, creating an initial prototype for action data, and exposing relevant ActionData types. They also implemented fetcher modules, which are important for handling client requests, and integrated these with the existing project structure. The user also appears to be responsible for enhancing existing example projects, such as the Todos and Signup pages, to leverage these new features and refine the framework's functionality.
elm-pagesssgstatically-typedelmsite-generator
dillonkearns/elm-graphql
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
Autogenerate type-safe GraphQL queries in Elm.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1971 commits, 138 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dillon primarily focused on Elm, contributing documentation, making small fixes, and refactoring functions. Their contributions involved updating the HTTP documentation to include code examples, fixing typos, and renaming functions. The user also made changes to the build process, likely involving Elm package dependencies, and refactored code across various modules.
elmgraphql-queriestype-safegraphiqlautogenerate
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