Edward Faulkner
Founder at BraveLeaf
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Faulkner is a veteran software creator, open source community leader, and founder based in Cambridge, MA with 15 years of experience building full‑stack web tooling and developer-focused infrastructure. He leads Polynomial LLC and steers open source strategy at Cardstack Syndicate while founding domain-focused ventures in healthcare technology, blending product-level leadership with hands-on engineering. Deeply embedded in the Ember ecosystem, his contributions span core projects like ember-cli, ember.js, Ember Data and Glimmer VM, where he’s fixed complex rendering, build, and routing issues and added features that improve developer ergonomics. His work also spans backend concerns—improving PDF rendering and router semantics—and tooling like decaffeinate and embroider that modernize build and compilation paths. A former senior engineer at Akamai and MIT‑trained electrical engineer, he brings systems-level rigor to both startup product problems and large distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Physics and Mathematics, Physics and Mathematics at United States Military Academy at West PointMEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (45)
javascript10
react-components10
conversions10
serializer10
coffeescript10
compilation10
back-end-development10
routers10
testing10
component-development10
typescript10
test-framework10
router10
ember-cli10
glimmerjs10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
embroider-build/embroider
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Compiling Ember apps into spec-compliant, modern Javascript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 213 reviews, 2422 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the template compilation process in the `embroider-build/embroider` repository. They added code for handling a wider variety of cases, fixing a specific bug in the Glimmer printer, and refactoring code for better performance. Their work involved integrating new features into the framework, such as a support for a new lexical scope for components and better handling of different template formats.
ember-addoncompliantjavascriptspec-compliantspec
cibernox/ember-power-select
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
The extensible select component built for ember.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily focused on improving the documentation and demos of the Ember Power Select component. Their work included enhancing the scroll handling on documentation pages to improve user experience. They also added acceptance tests to ensure the correct rendering of all public pages and addressed keyboard navigation issues in a demo. Furthermore, they optimized the animated options demo using new liquid-bind rules, switching from `use=` to `rules=` and also added a fix for how `toArray` is called.
emberjsember-addonemberextensible
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