Kayla Washburn-love
Senior Software Engineer at Gleam ✨
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKayla Washburn-love is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building both front-end and systems-level software, currently driving developer tooling at Coder. She contributes to notable open-source projects like Deno and Gleam—adding runtime features, IO enhancements, and language-standard library improvements—demonstrating comfort across full-stack and language/runtime internals. At Coder she focuses on polished front-end experiences for remote development environments, improving UX and component quality while also addressing subtle platform bugs. Based in the Salt Lake City area, she blends practical product delivery with deep technical curiosity, evident from contributions that span UI refinements to low-level runtime flags and compression support. Outside work she embraces an expressive, human-first persona in open-source communities, signaling strong collaboration and accessibility alongside technical craft.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science B.S., Networking Emphasis, Computer Science B.S., Networking Emphasis at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (19)
deno10
typesc10
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
ui-design10
type-system10
uid10
stl10
front-end-development10
gleam10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
cli10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
coder/coder
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Provision remote development environments via Terraform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:644 reviews, 611 PRs, 1657 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kayla primarily worked on front-end components within the site directory, including the implementation and modification of React components. Their contributions centered on the visual aspects of the application, such as the creation of a user dropdown, the modification of navigation bars, and the display of template details. The user also addressed bug fixes related to the user interface and implemented the ability to display an informative deprecation message. They made improvements to existing components by enhancing visual elements and providing better user experience.
devcontainersremote-developmentdevopsvscodeide
gleam-lang/stdlib
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
🎁 Gleam's standard library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kayla primarily contributed to Gleam's standard library, focusing on core functionality. Their work includes implementing the `to_string` method for the `bool` type, adding and modifying various print functions (`eprint`, `eprintln`), and modifying existing IO functions to print to `stderr`. They also added tests and documentation to improve the library. These commits involve changes across several core Gleam files, demonstrating a deep understanding of the language and its standard library's design.
gleamerlangjavascriptstandard-librarytypescript
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