Kacie Fijalkovich
Software Engineer at Vercel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKacie Fijalkovich is a software engineer with eight years of experience building cross-platform applications and developer-facing infrastructure, currently at Vercel in New York. Her background includes contributing to React Native at Meta—improving core components like ScrollView, FlatList, and VirtualizedList—which reflects strong expertise in mobile performance and cross-platform UX. At Config she bridged product needs and engineering delivery, and her early internships at Thumbtack and MIT Lincoln Laboratory show a foundation in both applied engineering and research. Comfortable shipping production fixes and adding tests in large open-source projects, she brings pragmatic attention to edge cases in nested lists and native integration points. Collected at MIT with a Computer Science degree, she combines academic rigor with hands-on contributions to one of the most widely used mobile frameworks.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
react-native10
mobile-development10
android9
ios9
work-flow8
flowtype8
control-flow8
react8
flow-control8
cross-platform7
app-framework7
mobile7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:28 reviews, 54 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kacie primarily contributed to the React Native framework, focusing on improvements and bug fixes related to core components. Their work included adding flow typing to animated components, implementing a method for retrieving the native scroll reference in FlatList, and deprecating and replacing methods in ScrollView. They also addressed issues in the VirtualizedList and ScrollView components, adding tests and fixing bugs related to nested lists.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
kacieb/react-native-website
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
The site and docs for React Native
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
react-nativereact
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