Reid Barber
Front End Software Engineer at Adobe
United States
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Top SchoolReid Barber is a front-end software engineer with a decade of experience focused on design systems, accessibility, and polished user experiences. Currently at Adobe, he contributes to React Spectrum and React Aria, improving core UI components and adding features like drag-and-drop to enhance usability and accessibility. His background spans healthcare research software at Stanford, DevOps tooling at ExxonMobil, and security-cleared work at the NSA, giving him breadth across domains and delivery contexts. Reid combines a designer’s sensitivity with engineering rigor, regularly contributing to the widely-used adobe/react-spectrum open-source ecosystem to make complex components more robust and accessible.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Mississippi
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
react10
ui-components10
testing10
accessibility9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
ui-design7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/react-spectrum
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A collection of libraries and tools that help you build adaptive, accessible, and robust user experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2500 reviews, 344 commits, 811 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Reid made several contributions focused on improving the React Spectrum user interface components within the adobe/react-spectrum repository. The user worked on enhancing the user experience and fixing bugs related to the rendering and behavior of these components. Their work involved modifying existing components like the NumberField, and TextField, as well as adding new features, such as drag-and-drop support to list view. The user's work has improved functionality, appearance, and accessibility of several core UI components.
reactaccessibleadaptiveexperiencesreact-component-library
reidbarber/webmarker
May 2024 - Mar 2026
Mark web pages for use with vision-language models
Contributions:14 PRs, 31 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 10 months
language-modelpromptprompt-engineeringsomvision-language-model
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