Kaleb GarnerEngineering Lead
Helping product, design & engineering decide with a shared language and a shared price
I help product, design, and engineering make technical decisions on a level playing field by pricing them in a currency every team can read, so the price is clear when the decision is made.
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A Little About Me
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From Injured Athlete to Software Engineer — freeCodeCamp Podcast #193
In episode #193 of the freeCodeCamp podcast, I joined Quincy Larson to tell my journey in tech: from a career-ending knee injury in my first college semester, to working the front desk of an optometry office, to leading architecture transformations for healthcare systems... all before turning 23. We cover the real cost of moving fast in tech, my shortcomings with building a personal brand early on, and what I'd tell anyone who's just getting started.
Design Systems 101: The Developer Approach to Better Frontends
A well-built design system doesn’t just make your UI consistent, it makes your product better. Better developer experience, better user experience, better product velocity. But, getting there takes more than just a component library. In this workshop, we'll take a deliberate approach to building a JavaScript design system using React, Storybook, and CSS tokens. We'll start with primitives… the layout, spacing, and typography foundations, and build upward into a structured, scalable system you can actually ship and maintain.
Mess to Modern: Refactoring a React Nightmare
Have you ever been handed a React project that felt like navigating barbed wire? 900-line components, endless useEffects, and zero modularity. Join me as we take a real-world React nightmares and refactor it live! We’ll move from an over-engineered mess to a performant, scalable app by mastering predictable state management, centralized data handling, and domain-driven structure. Leave the “mess” behind and learn how to build React components that bring order back to your code!