Jason Kadrmas
Principal Engineer at Target
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Kadrmas is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building research-driven web and mobile applications, currently leading platform and frontend initiatives at Target from Saint Paul, MN. He combines strong frontend expertise in React, JavaScript (ES6), HTML/CSS and mobile apps with backend skills in Ruby on Rails, Java/Spring Boot and RDBMS design to deliver end-to-end solutions. Previously he led a development team at the University of Minnesota creating recruitment, invoicing and time-tracking systems and co-founded OMG Transit, where he owned both mobile apps and realtime Node.js APIs. Jason is an active front-end open-source contributor—authoring improvements and tests for React form and signature components—demonstrating attention to UX details like responsive resizing and predictable event handling. Known for bridging research needs and production-grade engineering, he brings an operator’s mindset to product-focused technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (10)
component-development10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
css8
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blackjk3/react-signature-pad
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
A signature pad implementation for react.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 19 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the React-based signature pad implementation. Their commits added functionality such as an optional clear button, and addressed button click events with `preventDefault`. Further commits updated the app by adding unmounting instructions and adding documentation. The user also ensured the component responded correctly to screen resizing events.
reactsignature-pad
blackjk3/react-form-builder
Aug 2015 - May 2017
A complete react form builder that interfaces with a json endpoint to load and save generated forms. The toolbox contains 16 items for gathering data. Everything from star ratings to signature boxes!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the front-end development of the react-form-builder project. Their commits show modifications to the source code including updating package configurations and dependency management. They also added tests for components such as the toolbar and the star rating, alongside refactoring and adding new features, such as the ability to add static text or labels to the form elements.
react
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