Bryan Kendall
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Kendall is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years building and operating developer-facing tooling and cloud services, currently leading Firebase Hosting and CLI at Google. He blends full‑stack engineering with DevOps instincts—shipping middleware and i18n for static-hosting tools, improving Firebase extensions and CLI test infrastructure, and driving production deployment workflows. Early experience spans systems and runtime work at AMD and microservice/tooling roles at startups, giving him a strong foundation in debugging complex distributed systems. An active open-source contributor, he’s made substantive edits to high-profile repos like Firebase projects and DefinitelyTyped, improving TypeScript coverage and test reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate messy edge cases into robust, maintainable fixes and to push teams toward better CI and testing practices.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (27)
github-ci10
javascript10
middleware10
testing10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
cicd10
chai10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
firebase10
google-cloud-platform9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/superstatic
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Superstatic: a static file server for fancy apps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 53 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bryan implemented updates to the `Superstatic` project, focusing on core functionality and refactoring. These contributions include major changes related to clean URLs and trailing slash behavior, which were implemented in the middleware. The changes also include refactoring and cleaning up unused dependencies. The user also added i18n support to the project.
file-serverstatic-file-serverfancyserver
firebase/firebase-tools
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 658 reviews, 468 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Bryan contributed to updating and maintaining the Firebase Command Line Tools repository. They focused on updating the codebase to use the Chai and Sinon testing libraries. They made updates to existing test files, incorporated the use of createSandbox to better manage the testing environment, and fixed a test for the profiler report to correctly generate and report errors. Additionally, they made TypeScript code improvements.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
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