Kevin Qi
Software Engineer at Gridmatic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Qi is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of hands-on experience building polished front-end components and UX-focused demos. Currently at Gridmatic, he blends production engineering with open-source craftsmanship—his popular React components (including a customizable circular progress bar and an SVG calendar heatmap inspired by GitHub) show attention to animation, accessibility, and configurability. Kevin excels at refactoring for maintainability, improving prop handling and state management, and shipping intuitive demos that make components easy to adopt. Pragmatic and design-minded, he brings a product-focused perspective to engineering, often surfacing usability improvements before they become issues.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.86/4.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.86/4.0 at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
react-components10
css10
component-development10
watchkit10
ui-design10
reactjs-components10
react-component10
uid10
svg10
front-end-development10
react10
circular-progress-bar9
ios9
progress-indicator9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kevinsqi/react-calendar-heatmap
Apr 2016 - Jun 2022
An svg calendar heatmap inspired by github's contribution graph
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:153 commits, 36 PRs, 153 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the react-calendar-heatmap component. Their contributions involved refactoring the component to improve how props are handled, rewriting it to use methods and state. They also fixed prop types, updated the demo page for improved user experience, including examples, and added vertical orientation support.
heatmapcalendarsvgcalendar-heatmapgraph
kevinsqi/react-circular-progressbar
May 2016 - Jun 2022
A circular progressbar component, built with SVG and extensively customizable
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 177 commits, 80 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the development of a circular progress bar component using React. Their work involved initial implementation, refining the component's appearance and functionality, and adding features like animations and text display. They also improved the demo page by incorporating dynamic content and configuration options, demonstrating a focus on usability and visual presentation.
reactloading-barsvgcustomizablecircular
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