Kevin Saldaña
Staff Frontend Engineer at ZEALS
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolKevin Saldaña is a Staff Frontend Engineer based in Tokyo with 10 years of experience building modern, maintainable web UIs using TypeScript and React. He has progressed from full-stack roles to senior frontend positions at companies like athenahealth and Steadily, now leading frontend efforts at ZEALS. Kevin contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as the Firefox DevTools debugger, where he modernized core components by converting them to JSX and improving debugging ergonomics. His background includes backend service work (Go/Node) and mobile React Native, giving him a practical full-stack perspective when designing front-end architecture. A former accounting graduate and teaching assistant, he combines analytical rigor with a knack for refactoring legacy codebases into more robust, developer-friendly systems. Colleagues value him for shipping pragmatic improvements that reduce technical debt while improving developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Accounting, Master's degree, Accounting at Texas A&M UniversityHighland Park High School
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Github Skills (9)
component-development10
javascript10
react10
jsx10
devtools9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
developer-tools9
uid9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/debugger
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
The faster and smarter Debugger for Firefox DevTools 🔥🦊🛠
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on refactoring existing components within the Firefox DevTools debugger, converting them to JSX. This included migrating Dropdown, Expressions, WhyPaused, and Scopes components. The changes aimed to modernize the codebase by updating UI elements. The commits also included adding display names for subcomponents to improve debugging.
firefoxsmarterfasterdeveloper-toolsdebugging
ksaldana1/ts-alias-transformer
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
TypeScript AST transformer to resolve type aliases into fully formed interfaces
Contributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 months
aliasesresolveasttypescript-asttransformer
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