Brent Kirkland
Senior Software Engineer at Fastly
Ladera Ranch, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Kirkland is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, user-facing systems across Cannabis, Blockchain/FinTech, and edge infrastructure. He currently contributes to Fastly’s platform after leading React and React Native initiatives at Weedmaps and Bitfinex, where he rebuilt mobile trading apps and led a KYC compliance portal. Comfortable across Node and TypeScript on the backend and React on the frontend, he pairs product-minded engineering with operational rigor for real-time trading and compliance use cases. Based in Ladera Ranch, CA, he brings a pragmatic leadership style grounded in hands-on coding and a history of shipping production microservices and mobile apps for regulated industries.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (129)
mobile-development10
react-redux10
browser10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
react-starter-kit10
react10
get-started9
pino9
javascript9
app-framework9
winston9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brentkirkland/brentkirklandcom
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
personal website
Contributions:37 commits, 8 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 years 8 months
reactjsreactnextjstypescript
brentkirkland/react-native-plaid
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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