Carson Mckinstry
Senior Engineer at Spotify
Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolCarson Mckinstry is a web engineer with nine years’ experience building front-end focused applications, currently working as Engineer II at Spotify out of Oberhausen, Germany. He progressed through roles at trivago and several startups, bringing practical expertise in JavaScript, front-end frameworks, and accessibility gained early on managing and ADA-checking dozens of school websites. Trained through formal study in German language and exchange study in Leipzig, plus hands-on web development certifications from Free Code Camp and OKCoders, he combines cross-cultural communication skills with solid technical foundations. Carson is active on GitHub and frames his public work around practical web engineering, reflecting a builder’s mindset comfortable shipping production UIs at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Harding Charter Preparatory High SchoolBachelor’s Degree German Language and Literature, Bachelor’s Degree German Language and Literature at Oklahoma State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampExchange Semester Germanistik, German Language and Literature, Exchange Semester Germanistik, German Language and Literature at Leipzig UniversityFront End Web Development Certification Web Development, Front End Web Development Certification Web Development at OKCoders
English, German
Github Skills (83)
websocket10
javascript10
browser10
socket-io10
nodejs-stream10
camp10
nextjs10
frontend10
react10
compiler9
hybrid9
low-latency9
user-interface9
vercel9
static-site-generator9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CarsonMcKinstry/pwa-notes
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:104 commits, 2 PRs, 58 pushes in 7 months
trivago/samsa
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
A high level NodeJS stream processing library
Contributions:143 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 months
nodejs-stream
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