Will Klein
Founder at Toolspace LLC
South Windsor, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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SeniorWill Klein is a founder and developer-experience specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building design systems, full-stack applications, and developer tooling. He has led DX and developer relations work at companies like Workday and North, helped a payment portal win multiple DevPortal awards, and contributed to high-impact open-source UI projects such as Workday’s Canvas Kit and Rally’s app catalog. Will pairs practical engineering (React, TypeScript, Node) with systems thinking—improving onboarding, testing, and upgrade automation through code mods and tooling. He’s a seasoned community builder and speaker who turned an early fear of public speaking into organizing meetups and mentoring dozens of first-time presenters. Notably, he experiments with future developer tooling including AI and editor extensions while consulting through his firm Toolspace LLC. Based in Connecticut, he prioritizes creating more equitable, supportive developer communities alongside shipping reliable software.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)
RallyApps/app-catalog
Dec 2013 - Mar 2016
A collection of extensible apps from Rally's App Catalog
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily worked on the Rally Apps catalog, focusing on front-end and back-end adjustments. Their contributions included fixing specifications related to the Planning Board and Timeframe Planning Column, adapting code for changes in fetch/shallowFetch usage, and correcting code in the Iteration Tracking Board. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue of the Legend overlapping with the Stuffed-crust pie chart. The user also implemented the functionality for printing the TreeGrid, incorporating changes to include sorting and filtering capabilities.
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Workday/canvas-kit
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Development kits to implement UI following the Workday Canvas Design System (https://canvas.workday.com/). See our Component Storybook -
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:274 reviews, 14 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Workday Canvas Design System. Their work included fixing menu and skeleton component functionalities. They also refactored and updated code mods for improved import renaming accuracy, and addressed a documentation update for side panel stories. Furthermore, the user updated documentation for `@workday/canvas-kit-react-fonts` and made changes to a search form component.
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