Ken Crocken Front End Engineer

Ken Crocken | Front End Engineer

💻Languages TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby

🧠Frameworks & Libraries

  • UI Frameworks: React, Angular, React Router, Nextjs, Ruby on Rails, Django
  • Design Systems & UI Kits: Material-UI, TailwindCSS, USWDS
  • State Management: Redux Toolkit, RTKQuery
  • Testing: Vitest, Testing Library, Playwright

🛠️Tooling & Platforms

  • Version Control & DevOps: Git, GitHub, Docker, Jenkins, AWS
  • Build & Utilities: Vite, Webpack, OpenAPI, Postman
  • Testing & Debugging: Storybook, React DevTools, ReduxDevTools
  • Design & Collaboration: Figma, Miro, Slack, JIRA, Confluence

Let's talk shop …

Modern applications are increasingly data-driven, and dashboards have become the go-to interface for making that data useful and actionable. In this space, React stands out as the preferred choice—its component model, hooks, and ecosystem make it ideal for building interactive, scalable UI.

Lunar Phase is a small demo app in React that displays the current phase of the moon by fetching data from the Naval Observatory API. We can use it to demonstrate working in a UI with React.