Kye Hohenberger
Staff Frontend Engineer at Instacart
Poolville, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarKye Hohenberger is a Staff Frontend Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, interactive web applications and internal developer tools. He led frontend architecture and TypeScript migrations at Gremlin and now drives frontend excellence at Instacart, pairing technical leadership with hands-on delivery. Kye is the creator and principal maintainer behind Emotion, a widely used high-performance CSS-in-JS library that shifted the ecosystem’s focus toward runtime and SSR performance. He’s skilled at bridging design and engineering—building custom D3 visualization libraries, real-time interfaces, and developer tooling that cut release time to minutes. Based in rural Texas, he combines deep performance-first engineering with a habit of exploring new languages and platform-level improvements.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
css10
javascript10
emotion10
react10
documentation10
html9
gatsby8
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
emotion-js/emotion
May 2018 - Sep 2019
👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 21 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kye primarily contributed to the project by implementing and refining the user interface and documentation. They updated the documentation site styles, including theming using Dracula, and fixed code block alignments. The user also focused on improving the site's user experience, including mobile responsiveness and adding table styles. Furthermore, the user integrated Google Analytics and fixed various UI/UX issues, enhancing the site's usability.
compositionreactemotionjs-librarycss
tkh44/simple-listen
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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