Jeff Yates
Staff Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Yates is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable software across education, healthcare, automotive, and embedded domains, currently driving engineering at Khan Academy from Austin. He combines hands-on full‑stack development with systems and process design, having led multi-disciplinary teams, mentored engineers, and contributed to CMMI level‑3 quality efforts. Jeff modernized legacy open-source tooling—e.g., upgrading the build and dev workflow of the accessibility toolkit tota11y—demonstrating a knack for pragmatic modernization and developer experience. His background spans low-level Windows and diagnostics software to web platforms, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency. An immigrant who values continual learning, he enjoys reading, writing, and discussing technical and process improvements.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MEng (Hons), Computer Systems Engineering, 2:1, MEng (Hons), Computer Systems Engineering, 2:1 at University of Manchester - Institute of Science and TechnologyHeathfield High School
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babel610
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constructor10
winforms10
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Github contributions (5)
jdan/tota11y
May 2018 - Jun 2019
an accessibility (a11y) visualization toolkit
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 20 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on modernizing the project's build and development environment. They upgraded dependencies such as Babel, Handlebars, and jQuery, and refactored the build process to use Webpack 4, including package locking and more idiomatic configuration. Their contributions also involved restructuring the project for production and development builds, along with setting up a development server.
accessibilityvisualization
Khan/khan.github.io
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
An index of some of the open source efforts at Khan Academy
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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