Kara Erickson
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Kara Erickson is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building high-performance front-end systems and leading teams at Google and Airbnb. She helped set technical strategy for web performance across major frameworks (Next.js, Angular, Nuxt) as part of Chrome’s Aurora initiative, driving measurable LCP improvements and shipping features like next/image and NgOptimizedImage. A longtime core contributor to Angular and Next.js, she blends deep framework internals (Ivy runtime, Angular forms) with pragmatic engineering—adding examples, tests, and TypeScript enhancements that improve developer experience. Kara has managed and mentored engineering teams while collaborating directly with framework maintainers and production partners to validate solutions at scale. Based in the Bay Area, she pairs strong hands-on implementation skills with systems-level thinking and a track record of turning complex performance problems into practical framework features.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Tam HighUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
server-side-rendering10
typescript10
nextjs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
angular10
web-development9
compiler8
nodes8
compiler-compiler8
component-kit8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
angular/angular
Feb 2015 - Oct 2022
Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:178 reviews, 664 commits, 1339 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kara focused on the development and implementation of Angular forms, specifically in the context of building UI components. Their commits centered around adding example applications for features like formArrayName, ngModel, and ngModelGroup, which are core concepts in Angular's template-driven forms. These examples include component implementations, HTML templates, and end-to-end tests using Protractor, demonstrating a focus on both functionality and testing.
reactjavascriptpwanodejsweb-developer
vercel/next.js
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
The React Framework
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kara contributed to the Next.js framework, implementing features related to server-side rendering and type definitions. Their work included enabling promise support for `getServerSideProps`, updating TypeScript types to accommodate this change, and adding error handling to prevent accessing the response object after `getServerSideProps` returns. They also refactored the Document component to prepare for classic streaming and added warnings in development mode for incorrect usage of script and stylesheet tags within the `<Head>` component.
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