Seth Perry
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend at Slack
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Perry is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently building scalable user experiences at Slack from the Denver area. He has a track record at Amazon of engineering high-performance React UIs that render thousands of devices and hundreds of state changes per second on constrained hardware, and of cutting commissioning time by 90% through designed drag-and-drop editors. Seth drives engineering best practices—establishing CI/CD, testing infrastructure (Cypress/Playwright), and usage metrics—while mentoring teams and managing engineers. An active open-source contributor to the popular Material UI ecosystem, he has improved TypeScript demos, accessibility, and keyboard interactions across key components and pickers. His background in both product-focused UX and low-latency visualization makes him especially skilled at turning complex operational data into usable, performant interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Program, International Baccalaureate Program at Lakewood High SchoolAdvanced EMT Training, Advanced EMT Training at St. Anthony Prehospital Emergency ServicesComputer Science (MS/BS), Computer Science (MS/BS) at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
accessibility10
javascript10
react-components10
ui-components10
typescript10
material-ui10
system-design10
react-component10
system10
material-design10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
jes9
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 15 PRs, 25 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the Material UI component library by adding TypeScript demos and examples for various components, including Chips, Tabs, Pickers, Snackbars, and Steppers. They implemented new features, such as enabling generic props for the Chip component and modifying existing demos to use hooks and newer TypeScript features. The user also updated tests to reflect changes in the toolbar buttons and adjusted styling to align with the existing Material UI styles.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
mui/material-ui-pickers
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Date & Time pickers, built with ❤️ for @material-ui/core
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 3 comments, 2 issues in 6 days
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and accessibility of the Material UI pickers library. Their commits addressed keyboard accessibility for toolbar buttons and adjusted the styling of UI components, ensuring consistency with the existing design. They also updated existing tests to reflect the modifications in the toolbar buttons, including the changes in timezones. Moreover, the user contributed to features related to date and time pickers.
date-pickerdate-timereactdatepickertime-picker
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