Brendan Carney
Engineering Leader at Linear
Olathe, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Carney is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling product engineering teams, currently leading engineering at Linear after serving as Director of Engineering at Kit. He’s known for raising the talent bar, rebuilding management structures, and doubling team velocity while driving over $1M in architectural cost savings. Brendan blends deep technical expertise with product and business fluency, turning ambiguous visions into shipped outcomes and making AI tooling a practical part of developers’ workflows. He contributes to open-source front-end work—improving accessibility and component behavior in the widely used reach-ui library—demonstrating hands-on attention to UI quality and performance. Based in Olathe, Kansas, he favors lightweight, value-driven processes and removes bureaucracy where it doesn’t help. Colleagues describe him as unusually product-minded for an engineering leader, equally focused on developer experience and measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Kansas State University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
react10
ui-components10
accessibility9
css8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reach/reach-ui
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
The Accessible Foundation for React Apps and Design Systems
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Brendan primarily contributed to the `reach-ui` repository by modifying and enhancing UI components. Their work included adding attributes to UI elements, optimizing component behavior concerning collisions, and addressing UI rendering and positioning logic. These changes improve the accessibility and responsiveness of the UI components within the project. Furthermore, the user removed redundant code and refactored component behavior, making the code cleaner and more efficient.
react-appsreactaccessiblefoundationstorybook
Kit/slate-plugins
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
A collection of plugins for SlateJS, maintained by ConvertKit
Contributions:107 commits, 34 PRs, 109 pushes in 8 months
slateslatejsconvertkitrich-text-editor
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