Ken Snyder
Principal Software Engineer at coda music
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Snyder is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with 10+ years building rich front-end experiences and full-stack systems using React, React Native, Node, GraphQL, and TypeScript. He has driven front-end architecture and UX improvements at scale across companies like Airbnb and Uber, and now leads engineering efforts at Sup. A longtime builder, he contributes to open-source—improving usability and programmatic controls in the popular react-digraph graph editor—and pairs that with backend expertise in MySQL/Postgres. Ken also composes and designs sound for games, bringing a creative, multidisciplinary perspective to product work. He’s known for pragmatic API-driven UI design, measurable UX enhancements (pan/zoom/focus controls), and mentoring teams to ship reliable, testable interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at Fitchburg State University
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
uber/react-digraph
May 2019 - May 2021
A library for creating directed graph editors
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ken primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the `react-digraph` library. Their contributions include adding imperative methods like `panToNode` and `panToEdge` to allow programmatic control of the graph view. Additionally, they added a zoom option to the pan-to methods and corrected the focus handling and test parameters, further improving the user experience and maintainability of the library. The changes also included adding functionality to the example graph by adding a way to pan to nodes.
nodesgraph-editorgraph-drawinggraphdirected
ksnyder9801/react-digraph
May 2019 - May 2021
A library for creating directed graph editors
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
reactgraph-drawinggraphdirecteddirected-graph
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