Kris Ellery
Principal Software Development Engineer at Zillow
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKris Ellery is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in Dallas with over a decade of experience designing scalable front-end systems and design systems at enterprise scale. He specializes in React and modern front-end tooling, having led Zillow’s Design Systems team to improve Core Web Vitals (notably INP and FID) and scaffold a next-generation UI library using pnpm, Vite, TypeScript and build-time CSS. Kris has a track record of modernizing legacy stacks—introducing modular build tooling, private package distribution, and performant styling systems—while maintaining strong UX and accessibility focus. His background spans agencies to large product teams, delivering award-winning interactive experiences and complex internal platforms. Notably, he combines hands-on component development with performance-first architecture, often unblocking main-thread constraints to measurably speed real user interactions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Telecommunication Information Studies and Media, BA Telecommunication Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University
English, Polish
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Github Skills (172)
ember-simple-auth10
react-component10
range-slider10
command-line-utility10
slider-component10
theming9
javascript9
gulp9
visual-studio-extension9
normal9
html9
ember-cli9
parser9
epic9
styled-system9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kris-ellery/web-starter-kit-gulp
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
babelsassbowerboilerplategulp
kris-ellery/kris-ellery.github.io
Feb 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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