Kristofer Krause
Software Developer at Metropolitan Transportation Authority
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolKristofer Krause is a software developer with 14 years of experience building revenue-generating web applications for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. He combines front-end performance tuning—evidenced by measurable optimizations and feature work on the widely used Foundation framework—with full-stack delivery across retail, manufacturing, and transportation sectors. Recent roles at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Delta Galil follow prior engineering work at Walmart and Bare Necessities, showing a pattern of applying pragmatic engineering to domain-specific business problems. Trained in distributed object-oriented design (Master of Computer Applications) and grounded in applied computer science, he excels at turning collected data into actionable software. His contributions include adding robust unit tests and nuanced feature flags (like dropdown "no_pip"), reflecting a detail-oriented approach that values reliability as much as user-facing improvement.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Applied Computer Science at Lebanon Valley CollegeMaster of Computer Applications, Distributed Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Master of Computer Applications, Distributed Object Oriented Analysis & Design at University of Denver
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
responsive-design10
javascript10
foundation-sites10
dropdown-menu10
foundation10
jquery9
html9
asp-net9
css9
json6
cdn6
xml6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/foundation-sites
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 22 PRs, 85 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kristofer primarily contributed to the improvement and testing of the front-end framework. Their work included performance optimizations for the dropdown component, resulting in measurable improvements in execution time. The user also implemented new features like the "no_pip" setting for the dropdown component and added unit tests to ensure the reliability of existing features such as tooltips, reveals, and tabs, ensuring the framework's functionality.
cssjavascriptframeworkprototypingprototypes
dragthor/dragthor.github.com
Dec 2011 - Jan 2019
Contributions:707 commits, 496 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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