Kris Baumgartner
Community Lead at Poimandres
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Baumgartner is a Community Lead and front-end developer with seven years of experience building immersive web experiences and leading open-source communities from Los Angeles. As a maintainer of the widely used react-three-fiber renderer (pmndrs), he combines deep React and WebGL expertise with practical contributions around type definitions, mesh rendering, and glTF loader improvements that materially improve 3D developer workflows. He has led community and technical efforts at Poimandres while shipping production work as a senior developer across experiential and product teams, most recently at TRINE and Encube. With a background that spans creative direction and dual degrees in biochemistry and philosophy from UC Davis, he brings a rare blend of technical rigor, design sensibility, and systems thinking to developer tooling and interactive graphics. Colleagues rely on him not just for code, but for cultivating healthy OSS communities and making complex rendering behavior predictable and testable.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
3d9
renderer9
threejs9
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pmndrs/react-three-fiber
May 2022 - Jan 2023
🇨🇭 A React renderer for Three.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 40 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily contributed to the react-three-fiber library, focusing on type definitions, bug fixes, and the addition of features related to mesh handling and loading. They improved the codebase by implementing and testing features related to rendering meshes and objects, including the handling of out-of-order children. These changes involved modifying core components and examples to ensure proper rendering and improve the developer experience. The commits also demonstrate involvement in updating the loader graph for glTF models.
reactanimationwebglfiberreact-three-fiber
pmndrs/koota
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
🌎 Performant real-time state management for React and TypeScript
Contributions:15 releases, 83 PRs, 209 pushes in 5 months
data-oriented-designdata-oriented-programmingecsentity-component-systemgame-development
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