Kristi Walker
Staff Design Engineer at Sprout Social, Inc.
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKristi Walker is a Staff Design Engineer with 11 years of experience crafting data-driven product experiences that make complex information actionable, currently leading design engineering at Sprout Social. She blends product design, data visualization, and front-end engineering (React, D3, HTML/CSS) to create clarity-focused tools and design systems, previously shaping data experiences at Capital One and research-driven visual stories at Pew Research Center. Kristi excels at cross-functional collaboration—translating business needs, user research, and messy datasets into intuitive interfaces and measurable product outcomes. She mentors designers in technical skills, advocates for thoughtful, ego-free teamwork, and brings newsroom-honed rigor in communicating data. Based in Richmond, VA, she races bikes and reorganizes gear when not prototyping the next elegant visualization.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, School of Media and Journalism — Interactive Storytelling & Graphic Design, 3.7 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, School of Media and Journalism — Interactive Storytelling & Graphic Design, 3.7 GPA at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
highcharts10
visualization8
javascript8
charts8
charting8
visualizations8
data-visualization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mcclatchy/honeycomb
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:89 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
DallasMorningNews/interactive_memorials
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 55 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
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