Kaden Wilkinson
Technical Co-Founder at AskElephant
Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolKaden Wilkinson is a technical co-founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile-first products and scalable APIs, specializing in Federated GraphQL architectures and developer tooling. He blends front-end UI/UX expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and React Native with backend systems work in Elixir, Postgres, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure to deliver cohesive, production-grade experiences. Kaden has led high-impact initiatives—rebranding large mobile apps, launching greenfield apps showcased at CES, and driving Divvy’s Bill.com integration—while championing developer velocity through Nx monorepos and a centralized protobuf repo. An active open-source contributor, he helped stabilize Absinthe (the Elixir GraphQL toolkit) and launched absinthe_federation, and his federation work was featured at ElixirConf 2021. Based in Eagle Mountain, Utah, he combines startup grit with pragmatic architecture, prioritizing scalable APIs and seamless developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) CIT w/ CS Emphasis, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) CIT w/ CS Emphasis at Utah Tech University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (19)
elixir10
wpgraphql10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
testing9
schema-design9
schema9
schema-org9
sdl8
crash-reports6
firebase6
xcode6
beta-testing6
google-cloud-firestore6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
absinthe-graphql/absinthe
Jun 2021 - May 2022
The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kaden primarily contributed to the Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the schema generation process. Their work included supporting object scalars in arguments, enhancing SDL generation to account for prototype schemas, and resolving issues with union rendering. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and introduced tests in several files, contributing to the stability and functionality of the Elixir GraphQL library.
servicesapirelayelixirgraphiql
DivvyPayHQ/absinthe_federation
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Adds Apollo Federation Spec conformance to the absinthe GraphQL library
Contributions:11 releases, 47 reviews, 42 commits in 1 year 1 month
conformanceelixirgraphql-libraryapollo-federationspec
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