Brian Kidd
Sr. Engineer at Bloomberg LP
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Kidd is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building full-stack web applications and integrations for enterprise products at Bloomberg and earlier startups. He began as a Ruby/Rails specialist and now blends deep Ruby expertise with modern JavaScript stacks, SPAs, microservices, and GraphQL, plus hands-on devops and deployment strategy. He has solved complex legacy-integration problems across multiple databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Comdb2) and search platforms (Elastic, Solr), and authored internal Ruby gems and reusable JS modules. A regular mentor, interviewer, and instructor, he co-runs an internal weekly mentoring group and routinely guides technical and non-technical stakeholders. Outside engineering he runs a professional DJ/MC business, reflecting strong event-driven planning and client-facing skills. Based in Washington, D.C., he prefers collaborative, agile teams and a pragmatic, problem-first approach to shipping valuable features.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Microsoft Systems Engineer, Microsoft Systems Engineer at Southern Methodist University
ruby, (x)html, css, yaml, haml/sass, prototype, jquery
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Github Skills (141)
multiselect10
testing10
automation10
nike10
browserify10
jscodeshift10
javascript10
chromium10
npm-link10
api10
firefox10
azure-devops10
html10
developer-tools10
js-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wickkidd/prezto
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
wickkidd/liquor-tree
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
component-basedvue-jstree-componentvuevuejs
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