Eric Soderberg
Design System Engineer at Verkada
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Soderberg is a Design System Engineer in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building polished, accessible front-end experiences. Currently at Verkada, he brings deep UI craftsmanship honed over a long tenure at Hewlett-Packard where he bridged UX design and software engineering. He contributes to notable open-source work in the grommet React framework, adding components like Carousel and improving DataTable and DropButton behavior to enhance accessibility and theming. Eric combines a Berkeley EECS background with practical product-focused engineering, comfortable shipping both design assets and frontend code. Known for improving component robustness and styling consistency, he excels at turning complex interaction problems into reusable design-system solutions. His career shows a rare blend of long-term enterprise experience and active contributions to modular, accessible UI libraries.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
grommet10
react10
ui-components10
styled-components9
progressive-web-apps6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grommet/grommet
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 1596 reviews, 1995 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric made multiple contributions to the Grommet framework by addressing issues and implementing features related to UI components. This included fixing issues with the DropButton, creating and changing Select elements, and addressing styling issues in existing components such as Button. Their work also involved the addition of new features, like the introduction of the Carousel and enhanced DataTable's capabilities, demonstrating a good understanding of front-end development principles and the ability to build UI features. These commits reflect a strong focus on improving and extending Grommet's UI components.
babelreactmodularityjavascripta11y
grommet/grommet-sandbox
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Grommet component samples for use with CodeSandbox
Contributions:1 review, 50 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 5 months
reacttoolboxduplicatescodesandboxgrommet
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