Kevin Van Cott
Organizer at NebraskaJS
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Van Cott is a senior software engineer and open-source maintainer with nine years of experience building developer-friendly, accessible web applications and data-heavy UIs. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, he combines hands-on frontend expertise in TypeScript, React, and UI libraries with a knack for improving developer experience—authoring material-react-table and maintaining core parts of TanStack Table. Kevin has repeatedly rebuilt and adapted data grid implementations (including Mantine and Material UI variants), showing a deep obsession with performant, usable tables and pragmatic API design. He’s shipped production systems across startups and enterprises—covering everything from customer portals and monorepos to security-focused visualizations—and mentors teams on TDD and accessibility. Outside of product work he consults for TanStack and organizes NebraskaJS, blending community leadership with continuous OSS evolution.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Information Technology - PC/Web Development, Associate's degree Computer Information Technology - PC/Web Development at Southeast Community CollegeEngineering, Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
component-development10
typescript10
user-interface10
material-ui10
datatable10
mantine10
datatables10
front-end-development10
html-table10
typescript-types10
datagrid10
typescripts10
react10
sorting10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KevinVandy/material-react-table
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A fully featured Material UI V5 implementation of TanStack React Table V8, written from the ground up in TypeScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:148 releases, 219 reviews, 780 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin's commits primarily focused on upgrading the TanStack React Table V8 implementation, which involved significant code changes in key components like `MaterialReactTable.tsx`, `MRT_TableHeadCell.tsx` and `MRT_TableBodyCell.tsx`. The user also addressed inconsistencies and introduced new features related to column pinning, showing a strong emphasis on enhancing the user interface and data presentation aspects of the library. Code modifications suggest the user's focus was implementing UI components with React and TypeScript, which aligns well with the project's aims.
reactdata-tablematerial-tabletanstackdatagrid
KevinVandy/mantine-react-table
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
A fully featured Mantine V5 implementation of TanStack React Table V8, forked from Material React Table
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 129 reviews, 96 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin appears to be heavily involved in the development of the Mantine React Table library, specifically focusing on converting Material UI components to Mantine UI components. Their primary contribution involves updating various components such as the filter text field, the main table component, and various toolbar and menu components. They also focused on implementing feature updates to the storybook examples.
reacttanstack-tablereact-materialmantine-v5react-material-table
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