Brent Kimmel
Engineering Team Lead at Squarespace
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Kimmel is an engineering team lead with 13 years of experience building robust front-end and web systems, currently leading engineering at Squarespace from Washington, D.C. His background spans senior roles at Elastic, Endgame, and Rosetta Stone, where he focused on modern web stacks, Node.js architecture, and consumer-facing marketing sites. He combines hands-on JavaScript and front-end expertise with team leadership and delivery discipline, often bridging product and engineering needs. Previously he supported high-stakes technical operations for political organizations, bringing experience in secure, mission-driven environments. Outside work he presents as a practical web developer and maintains a public developer presence (GitHub and Twitter) that reflects a mix of craft and community engagement.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Systems at The Ohio State University
English, German
Github Skills (43)
mesh10
observability10
kibana10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
css9
react9
elastic-common-schema8
sass8
css-in-js8
common-schema8
compress7
cobol7
eui7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bkimmel/kibana
Jan 2020 - Jun 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:2 PRs, 481 pushes, 165 branches in 3 years 5 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
bkimmel/WebPlatformGallery
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:290 commits, 286 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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