Sam Kimbrel
Staff Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Kimbrel is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years building distributed systems, scalable data storage, and high‑availability services. Currently at Figma after a long tenure at Twilio, he led technical strategy for Twilio Studio and Runtime, driving architectural refactors that cut customer-facing incident impact hours sixfold while Studio usage grew 400%. He pairs hands‑on backend work—contributing to Twilio’s multi-language helper libraries and flask‑restful—with platform migrations and optimizations projected to save $600k annually in COGS. Passionate about education and culture, he intentionally builds diverse, inclusive teams and refuses roles tied to exploitative business models such as ad‑driven, gig‑economy, or certain financial systems. An active open-source contributor who calls himself “human building software with other humans for the benefit of humans,” he expects thoughtfully supported remote collaboration and prefers in‑house recruiter outreach.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, French
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Github Skills (39)
api-doc10
api-rest10
javascript10
tml10
node-js10
url-encoding10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
package-development10
twilio-api10
net10
dotnet10
url-scheme10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
twilio/twilio-java
Jul 2013 - Jul 2015
A Java library for communicating with the Twilio REST API and generating TwiML.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:199 commits, 22 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Java backend of the Twilio library. Their work included supporting UTF-8 character set responses, implementing and fixing aspects of account and call resources, and updating the codebase by implementing parameters into request objects. The user also made version bumps and added deletion/redaction support. Furthermore, the user's commits involved API updates.
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twilio/twilio-python
Aug 2013 - Jun 2015
A Python module for communicating with the Twilio API and generating TwiML.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 commits, 11 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the `twilio-python` library. Their work focused on ensuring compatibility with older Python versions (3.2 and 2.5) by modifying unicode literals and format-string usage. Furthermore, the user updated the library's user agent string and implemented support for sequence types in form data, and added Message and Media resources.
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