Garrett Kadillak
Senior Frontend Engineer at Lyra Health
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Kadillak is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years of software experience, currently shaping user-facing products in Salt Lake City, most recently at Lyra Health after multi-year frontend and full-stack roles at Getaround. He specializes in React, Redux, redux-saga, and Jest-powered testing, with a practical backend pedigree from contributions to projects like Rockstor where he upgraded Django Rest Framework integrations. Garrett brings a mechanical-engineering mindset to software problems—comfortable digging into Linux and hardware-adjacent troubleshooting from earlier roles at ViaSat—helping him bridge front-end polish with system-level reliability. He’s practiced in teaching and mentoring, having co-instructed full-stack topics at RocketSpace, and consistently focuses on shipping pragmatic, well-tested experiences that improve product quality.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
python10
django10
django-rest10
model-view-controller10
django-rest-framework10
serialization9
apidoc9
data-serialization9
api9
sql-database8
data-integration8
databases8
btrfs7
configuration-management7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rockstor/rockstor-core
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Linux/BTRFS based Network Attached Storage(NAS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:200 commits, 14 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Garrett primarily focused on upgrading the Django Rest Framework (DRF) from version 2.x to 3.1, which involved refactoring the codebase to accommodate changes in the login process and other DRF integrations. They made changes across multiple files, including serializers, views, and models, indicating their involvement in various parts of the Rockstor core. The user also contributed to the codebase by making changes to a few view files, as well as the user model itself.
network-attached-storagenaslinuxstoragebtrfs
gkadillak/rockstor-core
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 149 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 7 months
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