Travis Arnold is a front-end engineer and designer with 11 years of experience building polished, user-focused web interfaces from Orange County, CA. He combines strong visual design skills (Adobe CS) with hands-on React and JavaScript engineering, and has contributed to notable open-source projects such as downshift (ARIA-friendly autocomplete primitives) and the official React Popper integration. Known for steady, deadline-driven execution and a collaborative, customer-first approach, he improves component APIs and UX through thoughtful refactors and bug fixes. Travis is continually learning—recently adding Ruby/Rails to his toolkit—and brings a go-getter attitude that pairs creative problem solving with reliable delivery. An understated strength is his history of improving measurement and preview tooling (react-measure, iframe preview work) to make complex UIs easier to build and test.
11 years of coding experience
Paloma Valley High School
Web/Multimedia Management, Graphic Design, Web/Multimedia Management, Graphic Design at Mt. San Jacinto Community College District
Contributions:217 commits, 47 PRs, 152 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Travis primarily focused on enhancing the `react-measure` library, addressing height calculation issues within React components. Their work involved modifying the core JavaScript code, especially around measuring and calculating the component's height. Furthermore, they made several adjustments to input names and other minor bug fixes to improve code efficiency and usability. These changes suggest a focus on optimizing the library's functionality for measuring the dimensions of React components.
🍿⚛Official React library to use Popper, the positioning library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:96 commits, 29 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Travis primarily focused on developing the official React library for Popper.js. Their contributions involved renaming components, adding options to the PopperJS library as props, and updating build configurations. They refactored and improved the component structure, including adding an arrow component and allowing for multiple Popper components within a single target. Furthermore, they made improvements in the area of animation examples.
react-librarypopperreactplacementpopover
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