Greg Thompson
Software Engineer at WorkOS
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Thompson is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in product and design system engineering, currently based in Kansas City. He has held progressive roles from front-end developer to principal and tech lead at companies including Elastic, Material Security, and now WorkOS, bringing deep expertise in building consistent, accessible UI components. Greg is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Elastic's Kibana and Swagger UI, where he focused on EUI upgrades, component development, and improving documentation and i18n. He excels at bridging design and engineering—translating product intent into robust, maintainable design systems that scale across teams. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors and pragmatic accessibility improvements that often surface as subtle but impactful UX wins.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Nebraska at OmahaRockhurst University
Github Skills (24)
open-api-v310
javascript10
eui10
typescript10
swagger10
ui-design10
uid10
api-specification10
swagger-ui10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
openapi10
openapi-documentation10
react10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/eui
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 973 reviews, 723 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg's commits primarily focused on improving the user interface and experience of the Elastic UI Framework (EUI). They addressed documentation issues by fixing broken links and updating guidelines for internal and external links. The user also implemented new components like EuiDualRange, added functionality to existing components, and contributed to the accessibility of the UI by improving the implementation of the EuiTableHeaderCell component.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
elastic/kibana
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 124 commits, 237 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the Kibana project. Their commits focused heavily on upgrading the Elastic UI (EUI) library across multiple versions, incorporating new features and deprecating existing ones. The code changes involved updating and modifying various UI components, including tables, forms, and navigation elements, and ensuring the visual consistency and functionality of the Kibana interface. They also made adjustments to CSS styles and i18n tokens.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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