Kris Braun
Founder at Plot
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Braun is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience turning ambitious ideas into shipped products—from launching consumer hardware in Best Buy to bringing Google Cloud Workflows to widespread adoption. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership, having scaled teams, modernized stacks, and shortened ship cycles while leading engineering and product at startups and at Google. Kris is building Plot to solve the execution gap he’s seen across organizations—organizing work by priority and context rather than endless inboxes—and his approach favors transformative progress over incremental busyness. An active contributor to front-end ecosystems, he’s improved utility-first CSS workflows in notable projects like Tailwind CSS, showing a practical eye for developer ergonomics. Based in Waterloo, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with systems-thinking and a track record of turning “this should be” into “it is.”
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science with Software Engineering Option, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science with Software Engineering Option at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (14)
css10
tailwind10
css-frameworks10
tailwindcss10
test-automation9
javascript9
vite9
html6
capistrano6
google-cloud-platform6
offset6
anchor6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tailwindlabs/tailwindcss
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 30 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on implementing and refining CSS utility classes within the Tailwind CSS framework. Their work included adding new utility classes for features like `contain` and `font-stretch`, which required modifying the core plugin functionality. They also updated and expanded existing utility functionalities and created tests to ensure proper implementation and source mapping. Furthermore, they identified and fixed issues related to the Vite build process, particularly regarding CSS file handling and optimization.
tailwindcssui-developmentcssutility-firstframework
KrisBraun/dotfiles
Nov 2012 - Mar 2023
Contributions:89 commits, 87 pushes in 10 years 6 months
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