Kris Gray
Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce.com
Summary
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RockstarKris Gray is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently leading the Lightning Tooling team at Salesforce, where he blends hands-on development with product-focused leadership. He is a strong full-stack contributor to high-profile open-source projects like the Salesforce Extensions for VS Code, improving the Apex debugger, LWC support, and cross-version compatibility for Node, npm, and VS Code. Kris pairs front-end expertise—evident from UI and interaction work in the Aura framework—with reliability engineering practices such as integration testing and telemetry fixes. Known for shipping developer tooling that scales across large teams, he routinely tackles tricky activation and debugging workflows that directly improve developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
lwc10
css10
typescript10
user-interface10
vscode-extension10
apex10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
salesforce10
debug9
unit-testing9
debugging9
html9
mochajs8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/aura
Apr 2014 - Jan 2019
This project is archived, please see the readme for additional resources.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:274 commits, 7 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily focused on modifying UI components within the "aura" framework, as evidenced by changes to various JavaScript and CSS files. Their commits involved adjusting the display, behavior, and interactions of components. They also fixed bugs, added new functionalities, and improved the presentation of elements within the UI.
additionalsalesforce-lightninglwcarchivedshadow-dom
forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Salesforce Extensions for VS Code
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 21 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily contributed to the Salesforce DX VS Code extension, focusing on improving the Apex debugger and LWC support. They updated dependencies across the project, enhancing debugger functionality and ensuring compatibility with newer versions of Node.js, npm, and VS Code. Furthermore, the user added integration tests for activation modes and addressed telemetry issues, solidifying the extension's reliability.
vscode-debuggervscode-extensionlightningvscodesalesforce-developers
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