Bryan Kendall
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Kendall is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building developer tools, cloud hosting infrastructure, and production runtimes. At Google he leads Firebase Hosting and the Firebase CLI, blending full‑stack development, DevOps, and team leadership to ship reliable tooling at scale. He's an active open-source contributor — notable work includes clean-URL/trailing-slash middleware and i18n for firebase/superstatic, test and TypeScript improvements in firebase-tools, and contributions to Firebase Extensions and DefinitelyTyped. His background ranges from runtime support at AMD to microservices and developer productivity at startups, giving him deep debugging and release expertise. Bryan pairs pragmatic engineering with a penchant for refactoring and cross-team automation—small behind-the-scenes fixes he makes often have outsized impact (and yes, he’ll notice bananas on your README).
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (32)
github-ci10
typescript310
middleware10
javascript10
node-js10
testing10
github-actions-workflows10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescript210
type-definition10
javascripts10
ci-cd10
chai10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/superstatic
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Superstatic: a static file server for fancy apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 53 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bryan implemented updates to the `Superstatic` project, focusing on core functionality and refactoring. These contributions include major changes related to clean URLs and trailing slash behavior, which were implemented in the middleware. The changes also include refactoring and cleaning up unused dependencies. The user also added i18n support to the project.
file-serverstatic-file-serverfancyserver
firebase/firebase-tools
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 658 reviews, 468 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bryan contributed to updating and maintaining the Firebase Command Line Tools repository. They focused on updating the codebase to use the Chai and Sinon testing libraries. They made updates to existing test files, incorporated the use of createSandbox to better manage the testing environment, and fixed a test for the profiler report to correctly generate and report errors. Additionally, they made TypeScript code improvements.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
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