About

Kye Hohenberger is a highly skilled Staff Frontend Engineer at Instacart with over 11 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is known for his passion for pushing the web platform to new heights and building high-performing interactive user-interface experiences. Prior to joining Instacart, Kye held the position of Lead Frontend Engineer at Gremlin where he architected and led major frontend technology decisions as a project lead for the frontend team. He was also a technical leadership group member, participating in conversations and initiatives for new features and projects to increase developer efficiency across the company. He led the effort to convert the web application codebase to TypeScript and mentored team members while giving internal talks around frontend best practices. Kye has also worked as a Senior Frontend Engineer at Gremlin where he built a data visualization component library based on D3 that met the unique needs of the product and design requirements. He developed internal tools and libraries to increase developer experience and productivity and streamlined the manual pull request and deployment flow to an automated process that enables developers to deploy changes to production in less than 10 minutes confidently. Kye is passionate about creating open-source projects and has created Emotion, a CSS-in-JS library that was orders-of-magnitude more performant than contemporary offerings, pushing the entire space to make performance a primary feature. Emotion continues to be a leader in the space today. Kye's professional ambition is to continue to expand his knowledge as a developer by exploring new languages, technologies, and challenges. He is highly skilled in Frontend, Web, and TypeScript and is always looking for new ways to improve his craft.