Thomas Konopka
Value Stream Director, Enterprise Transformation
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Konopka is a Value Stream Director leading enterprise transformation at Burns & McDonnell with 12 years of experience aligning multi-year strategy to product delivery across Vision-to-Strategy and Strategy-to-Market value streams. He combines deep program and project management—overseeing 500+ permitting, remediation, and infrastructure projects—with technical roots in environmental and civil engineering from Purdue. Known for translating regulatory and field-level complexity into executable plans, he has led cross-disciplinary teams from idea generation through market launch. Thomas also contributes front-end development to open-source dataviz (notably enhancing radar chart features in the popular nivo library), reflecting a rare blend of technical coding chops and enterprise transformation leadership. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a systems-thinking approach to scale new products and services.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS Environmental Engineering, MS Environmental Engineering at Purdue University College of Engineering
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
d3js10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
charts10
canvas9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-viz9
svg9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
plouc/nivo
May 2022 - May 2022
nivo provides a rich set of dataviz components, built on top of the awesome d3 and React libraries
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 4 commits, 11 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the `nivo` repository by implementing features and refactoring code related to the radar chart component. Their work included adding support for global rotation, renaming props, and adjusting the layout of labels in the radar chart. These changes involved modifications to the component's core logic, tests, and associated hooks, demonstrating a focus on improving the chart's functionality and visual presentation. The user's commits indicate expertise in React and the d3 library as the code interacts heavily with these technologies to create new features and improve upon existing ones.
data-vizreactdatavizd3jsisomorphic
tkonopka/mlensemble
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
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