Kim Gardner-burns
Manager, Manufacturing Design Software at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKim Gardner-burns is a manufacturing design software manager and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of professional experience and a longer track record of building products and teams across media and tech. Currently at Apple, she has held progressive leadership roles including senior engineering director positions at Vox Media and co-founding The Coral Project at Mozilla, where she drove full-stack work on high-impact open-source tooling for healthier online conversations. Her background spans founding startups (Pigeon.io), freelance product engineering, and hands-on contributions to well-known projects like Vox Media’s Talk—integrating features such as Perspective API–based toxicity analysis and authentication. Comfortable bridging product, design, and engineering, she brings a linguistics-informed attention to communication and UX that shows up in community-focused systems and developer-facing tooling. Based in Austin, she blends enterprise-scale program delivery with startup agility and a history of shipping both frontend and backend solutions.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Honours BA Linguistics, Honours BA Linguistics at University of TorontoSpanish Language & Literature Linguistics, Spanish Language & Literature Linguistics at Saint Louis University-MadridRuby & Ruby on Rails Web Development, Ruby & Ruby on Rails Web Development at Launch School
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Github Skills (17)
ui-components10
typescript10
authentication10
user-authentication10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
co10
javascript9
wpgraphql9
graphql-schema9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coralproject/talk
Nov 2016 - Oct 2020
A better commenting experience from Vox Media
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:110 releases, 14 reviews, 2019 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kim's commits primarily focused on implementing new features and enhancements within the Talk project. They contributed significantly to both the front-end and back-end codebases. These included integrating the Perspective API for comment toxicity analysis and adding authentication and user profile settings. They also worked on the UI components related to the stream's functionality.
reactcomments-widgetjavascriptnodejsgraphql
coralproject/talk-recipes
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
Recipes to use with The Coral Project's Talk
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
s-talkcoralrecipes
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