Keith Daulton

Keith Daulton has over 15 years of professional work experience. In 2005, they began as a Senior Web Graphics Designer for TracFone Wireless, where they were the hands-on IT team lead for all projects requiring UI/UX design and development with teams of up to 6 people. Keith spearheaded the inception of a shortened web release cycle for low-risk, marketing content updates and reduced front-end development time by consolidating 6 legacy websites into a single, unbranded website base with CSS-based skins and CMS-driven content.

In 2008, they founded DScripted Toolkit for JavaScript, an open-source JavaScript library on SourceForge, to simplify common UI development problems. In 2009, they became a UX Engineer and Co-Founder of ROJO Solutions, LLC, responsible for UX/UI design and front-end development.

In 2010, Keith became a Web Developer for Spirit Airlines, where they were brought on to modernize their old and outdated flight booking experience. Within 9 months, they had restructured the entire website's markup and styles, resulting in a modular, easy to implement, set of reusable interface patterns and JavaScript modules. Keith also acted as a hands-on lead for a scrum team of 4 front-end developers in Florida, Utah and India to convert flight booking to vacation packaging.

In 2012, they joined ion interactive, a ScribbleLive solution, as a Javascript Developer for both Engineering and Creative Services & Marketing Technology. Keith created new authoring tools and UI components for their web-based page editor, increased their competitive advantages over other products, and trained and mentored teammates on best practices and new technologies for front-end development.

In 2016, Keith became a Lead Member of Technical Staff - Front End for athenahealth. Keith was a management-level, individual-contributor brought on to help scale up their tools, systems and patterns for UI development and design systems. Keith was also a charter member of the Design System Engineering team and the Design System Northstar project.

In 2017, they returned to ion interactive, a Rock Content solution, as a Senior Front End Engineer. Keith was responsible for hands-on front-end development lead for SaaS platforms that enable marketers to design, build and launch responsive, embed-friendly interactive content without code knowledge.

In 2019, Keith joined Chewy as a Software Engineer III - Design Technology, a management-level IC on the Design Operations team tasked with bridging the gap between design and engineering and to grow their team's skillset as well as the front-end culture at Chewy.

Finally, in 2022, Keith joined GitKraken as a Senior Software Engineer II, a maintainer of the GitLens extension for Visual Studio Code. GitLens is the most popular Git extension on the Visual Studio Marketplace with over 20 million installs.

Overall, Keith Daulton has extensive experience in UX/UI design and front-end development, as well as expertise in modern design and development practices, JavaScript (ES6, TypeScript), CSS (SCSS, SassDoc), Vue, React, Webpack, Babel, Git, Figma Tokens, Style Dictionary, Storybook, Lerna, Yarn (classic and v3), AWS Amplify, MirageJS, Gridsome and InVision.

Keith Daulton received a Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation from The Art Institutes between 1998 and 2001. Keith also has two additional certifications, one in Oracle Content Server 10g - Customization obtained in February 2009, and one in Oracle Content Server 10g - Administration obtained in September 2008.