Kristen Garrett
Principal Software Engineer at Phantom
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKristen Garrett is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing front-end systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Phantom after senior roles at Bitski and LinkedIn. She has deep expertise in Ember.js—contributing to the core framework and to high-profile projects like ember-table—driving refactors, native-class compatibility fixes, and UI/UX improvements such as flex layouts and advanced table features. Kristen blends hands-on refactoring and testing discipline with product-focused component design, having modernized legacy stacks and created reusable UI frameworks earlier in her career. Based in Virginia, she pairs a BA in Computer Science from UCSC with a habit of tackling thorny compatibility and performance issues that often lurk beneath polished interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diablo Valley CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English
Github Skills (10)
css10
emberjs10
javascript10
react-components10
user-interface10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
ember10
react-component10
testing10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Addepar/ember-table
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 117 PRs, 151 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kristen's commits primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the user interface components of the Ember table. They moved to ES6 classes, cleaned up styles, and switched to a flex-based layout. The user added features such as checkbox selection and column-level configurations, and improved scroll handling. These changes suggest a focus on improving the component's functionality, styling, and user experience.
ember-addonember
emberjs/ember.js
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:85 reviews, 44 commits, 287 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kristen primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Ember.js framework. They implemented changes to core object initialization, and added tests for native class compatibility, including super calls, static methods, and constructor behavior. Furthermore, the user worked on bug fixes, ensuring the proper function of the `proto` function for native classes, and also addressing the need for options checking in debug/deprecation test helpers.
web-applicationsjavascript-frameworkjavascriptemberjsember
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