Erich Kuerschner
Senior Frontend Engineer at Self-employed
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErich Kuerschner is a frontend-focused technical leader with 11 years of experience building scalable React, TypeScript, and GraphQL applications, currently leading Coinbase Design Systems. He heads a team that delivers the foundational component library used across Coinbase’s web and mobile products, balancing architecture, performance, and cross-functional collaboration with designers — including direct partnerships with Figma. Erich has a strong open-source footprint as a core React contributor, and he pioneered his team’s AI-agent transformation to automate toil and surface higher-value engineering work. Based in Chicago and grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from Iowa State, he blends hands-on implementation with roadmap-level planning and an engineer-coach mindset.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (53)
hook10
react-hooks10
router10
pulse10
controlling10
html5-audio10
audio10
controls10
web-audio-api10
playback10
player10
audio-player10
music10
react10
audio-effect10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
E-Kuerschner/useAudioPlayer
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
React hooks for controlling audio on the web
Contributions:13 reviews, 39 commits, 90 PRs in 2 years
react-hooksreact-howlerplayeraudio-playerbrowser
TErenberger/SE329-Project3
Apr 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 6 months
tab-managerbyte
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