Emma Brillhart
Senior Engineering Manager at NutriStyle
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Brillhart is a senior engineering manager in Seattle with a decade of experience scaling product and growth teams across fintech, AI, and developer tooling startups. She has repeatedly been the first engineering management hire—shaping orgs from hands-on teams to interim VP-level leadership—and currently leads engineering at Honeycomb while advising early-stage NutriStyle. A former director at Formidable, she pairs front-end expertise (notably contributions to popular OSS projects like Victory and Spectacle) with a track record of improving accessibility and UX in React-based libraries. Emma blends product-minded engineering leadership with practical coding chops, having managed cross-functional teams that shipped full-stack features and content platforms at companies like Zapier and MainStreet. Colleagues rely on her to translate executive strategy into developer workflows and cleaner, more accessible user interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Politics and International Relations, Bachelor of Arts - BA Politics and International Relations at Scripps CollegeLakeside School
English, French
Github Skills (20)
accessibility10
javascript10
react-components10
ui-design10
react-component10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
jsx10
slide9
data-visualizations9
presenter9
presentation-layer9
data-visualisation9
presentationml9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/spectacle
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Emma primarily contributed to the front-end implementation of the Spectacle presentation library. They focused on resolving bugs related to component behavior, such as animations and gradients. The user also made improvements to the user interface by allowing customization and improving the appearance of the fullscreen button. Further commits addressed code formatting with "prettier" and accessibility by adjusting zoom behavior.
keynotereactpresentationjavascriptspectacle
FormidableLabs/victory
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:276 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
Contributions summary:Emma's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and functionality of the charting components within the Victory library. This involved implementing ARIA support, including title and description props for screen readers, and modifying the code to ensure visual elements, such as strokes, scaled correctly during resizing. Furthermore, the user created a new VictoryContainer component to streamline accessibility-related props.
chartsreactvisualizationscomposabledata-visualization
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