Keith Kurak
Developer Success Engineer at Various Conferences and Meetups Within Driving Distance of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Kurak is a developer-success engineer and full-stack mobile/web builder with 11 years of experience, now contributing to Expo after five years of building apps with its tools. He specializes in React Native and Expo, has shipped production mobile apps with complex integrations (wearables, Bluetooth, SSO), and led app delivery and automation that scaled a white‑label product without overwhelming engineering. Keith is an active open-source contributor to Expo projects—improving Android platform behavior and Three.js example apps to help developers use Expo with 3D assets—and frequently shares his learnings as a conference speaker and workshop instructor. Comfortable moving between native Android, iOS, and web stacks, he pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded thinking (an MBA to back it up) and a knack for simplifying build and deploy workflows. Off-hours he prototypes small apps and games—he’s determined to ship a video game before retirement, and will happily trade ideas (and graphics help) for pizza.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management at Baldwin Wallace University
English
Github Skills (12)
kotlin10
threejs10
expo10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
mobile-development10
android-development10
typescript-types10
java9
javas9
react-native8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
expo/expo
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:276 reviews, 21 commits, 220 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed to the Android platform within the Expo framework, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the core modules and emulator detection. Their work included optimizing emulator checks, adding features to camera and device modules to avoid functions on emulators, and resolving issues related to photo-taking functionality on emulators. They also made updates to the Dev Launcher and Constants module. The user's commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the Android platform and the Expo framework.
ios-androidiosmobileweexframework7
expo/expo-three
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed to the example application within the `expo-three` repository. They updated dependencies, addressed TypeScript errors, and refactored code related to texture loading and model loading. Significant changes included integrating an obj model demo into the example application, switching to a BoxGeometry example, and adding and modifying several files. Their contributions enhanced the example app to demo loading models using Expo and Three.js.
reactreact-nativejavascriptthreejsjavascript-game
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