Kristofer Baxter
Garden Leave at Citadel
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristofer Baxter is a seasoned user-experience and web technologies leader with a decade of experience building high-performance web application architecture and teams across the Bay Area. He has led UI/UX and web performance efforts at major organizations including Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, and most recently as Head of UI and UX at Citadel, combining hands-on engineering with strategic program leadership. Kristofer’s background spans front-end architecture, Node.js server-side experience, and accessibility improvements—evidenced by open-source contributions to high-profile projects like AMP where he improved accessibility and component performance. He’s comfortable shipping production-grade React/Preact applications, integrating WorkerDOM demos, and tuning web performance across massive document surfaces. Based in San Francisco, he blends product-minded leadership with practical coding chops, often diving into refactors and tooling to unblock teams. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating accessibility and performance work into measurable improvements at internet scale.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (19)
accessibility10
javascript10
ampl10
css10
google-amp10
front-end-development10
html10
amp-html10
preact10
react10
ui-design9
esmodules9
uid9
frontend9
babeljs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/worker-dom
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
The same DOM API and Frameworks you know, but in a Web Worker.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 51 reviews, 404 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kristofer primarily contributed to demo applications within the `ampproject/worker-dom` repository, focusing on integrating and testing the WorkerDOM API with various front-end frameworks. Their work included refactoring existing demo applications, updating dependencies, and fixing minor display and rendering issues. They demonstrated proficiency in Preact and React, and used tooling related to bundling, and ES modules.
apijavascriptdom-apiworkerwebworker
ampproject/amphtml
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:541 reviews, 123 commits, 384 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kristofer primarily contributed to the AMP project by modifying front-end components and improving accessibility. Their commits focused on changes within the `amp-accordion` component to improve accessibility for iOS users, modifying ARIA roles. Furthermore, they made changes to the amp-youtube component, converting to template literals and using the createPlaceholderCallback method. The user's contributions also included work on the image components and gallery.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
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