Keal Jones
Senior Software Engineer at Workiva
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeal Jones is a frontend-focused senior software engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting component libraries and developer workflows for large teams. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he led Workiva’s micro-frontend strategy and co-created a cross-language Design System that enabled 600+ engineers to move from a monolithic Dart app to a polyglot ecosystem. He specializes in React, TypeScript and build/CI optimization—achieving a 98.4% reduction in build times, a 66% boost in developer productivity, and an 80% cut in CI costs. Earlier roles as CTO and lead interactive developer blend product-driven engineering with UX-first design, and he’s known for automating tedious cross-language maintenance (e.g., auto-generating Dart wrappers) to prevent duplicated work. That mix of design sensibility and systems-level optimization makes him a pragmatic leader who drives both developer experience and business impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Graphic Design with Honors, Bachelor of Science - BS Graphic Design with Honors at The Art Institute of California-Los Angeles118/160 Credits Completed toward BS Computer Science, 118/160 Credits Completed toward BS Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraAssociate's degree level then transfered to UCSB Computer Science, Associate's degree level then transfered to UCSB Computer Science at Santa Barbara City College
Sign languages, English
Github Skills (54)
sdk10
programming-language9
dart2js9
floor9
flutter9
dart9
react8
profiler8
typescript8
laravel8
debug8
microsoft7
electron7
wikipedia-api7
wikipedia7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
likeyapp/Wiqi
Dec 2015 - Oct 2018
WIkipedia Query Interface: Laravel 5 package to perform different Wikipedia API Queries.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
laravel-5-packageapiquerywikipedialaravel-5
KealJones/KemystryJS
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
A WIP Javascript plugin framework
Contributions:9 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
wipjavascriptesmodulesframeworkplugin-framework
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