Kevin Parkerson
Staff Software Engineer at Seed Technology
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Parkerson is a Staff Software Engineer based in Denver with 13–14 years of experience building full-stack products, component libraries, and cross-team integrations that scale. He combines hands-on implementation—shipping accessible, well-tested UIs and features—with architecture and team leadership, having grown engineering teams and led post-acquisition integration efforts. At Salesforce he maintained the high-profile design-system-react library and contributed UI components used across the ecosystem, and at Dutchie he architected e-commerce features that directly drove significant customer growth. Kevin mentors engineers, runs reliability and process improvements, and moves quickly from prototype to production, evidenced by demo apps and even an event-scale Unity game he built for Dreamforce. He’s a pragmatic problem-solver who favors elegant, standards-driven solutions and improving user lives with thoughtful design.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Graphics Technology, BS Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University
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Github Skills (11)
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front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
ui-components10
system-design9
system9
horizontal-scrolling6
swing6
java6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
salesforce/design-system-react
Aug 2016 - Feb 2020
Salesforce Lightning Design System for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 1 review, 370 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the UI components of the Salesforce Lightning Design System for React, specifically within the `salesforce/design-system-react` repository. Their contributions include implementing search input functionality, refining logic, and introducing new components like the brand-band component and working on the overall structure of the app launcher modal. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of React and its role in building front-end applications.
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kevinparkerson/design-system-react
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Salesforce Lightning Design System in React
Contributions:207 pushes, 76 branches, 3 tags in 1 year 5 months
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