Joel Kelly
Senior Staff Engineer at Pocket
Scotts Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Kelly is a Senior Staff Engineer with nine years of professional experience building resilient web platforms and browser integrations from Scotts Valley, CA. Currently at Mozilla and Pocket, he focuses on front-end systems and cross-process communication, having notably fixed race conditions and added safety messaging in the popular webext-redux project. A hands-on architect and longtime builder, he moves between shipping production features and improving developer-facing primitives with equal ease. He thrives on rapidly learning new technologies and simplifying brittle systems into reliable, testable components. Comfortable leading architecture and diving into low-level edge cases, he blends creativity from a long freelance background with institutional engineering discipline. Outside of work he approaches problems like his GitHub credo—Make. Break. Fix. Repeat.—which drives pragmatic, iterative improvements.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Sociology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Sociology at UCSC
Github Skills (7)
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
webextension10
chrome-extension10
redux10
react9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tshaddix/webext-redux
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
A set of utilities for building Redux applications in Web Extensions.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily worked on enhancing the `webext-redux` project by addressing race conditions and improving the communication mechanism between the store and web extension components. Their contributions include implementing a safety message listener to ensure the store is ready and resolving a race condition issue. They also updated the code to improve the message structure and added unit tests to verify the implemented safety message functionality.
web-extensionreactweb-extensionsredux-applicationredux-store
Pocket/front-end-build-tools
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Modified Create React App for use with Pocket extensions
Contributions:21 commits, 13 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
reactpocketmodifiedcreate-reactextensions
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