Tom Kraak
Senior Frontend Engineer at Thinkful
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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SeniorTom Kraak is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building JavaScript-driven interfaces at SimplePractice and specializing in Ember.js. He pairs deep practical knowledge of the web platform with a passion for teaching—running long-standing courses at Betamore and mentoring through Baltimore NodeSchool and Thinkful. His career blends product-focused frontend work at scale (Verizon Media) with early hands-on web and SEO consulting, giving him a pragmatic sense for performance, accessibility, and discoverability. An active open-source contributor and lifelong JavaScript enthusiast, he regularly gives back to the community while advising youth-focused tech initiatives like #BUILTBYGIRLS. Colleagues describe him as a patient mentor who translates complex frontend ideas into practical curriculum and maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
German, English
Github Skills (82)
vim10
emberjs10
firebase10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
absolute10
ember-addon10
javascript9
emacs-lsp9
melpa9
unit-test9
ava8
calculator8
ember8
contentful8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tkraak/coffeerun
Jul 2017 - Nov 2021
:coffee: CoffeeRun
Contributions:10 PRs, 101 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
avacoffeejavascriptteachunit-test
tkraak/ava-rewire
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
:building_construction: Experimenting with AVA and rewire
Contributions:5 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
avaexperimentingjavascriptexpressrewire
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