Chad Kimes
Principal Software Engineer at Vanta
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChad Kimes is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading high-impact engineering work at companies including GitHub, Microsoft, and now Vanta from Raleigh, NC. He specializes in solving hard technical problems across the full stack, with notable open-source contributions to the Servo web engine and enhancements to GraphQL query parsing that demonstrate depth in both browser internals and backend query processing. Chad has progressed through hands-on engineering and technical leadership roles—up to director-level at GitHub—where he balanced shipping complex systems with mentoring and architecture. His background in materials engineering hints at a methodical, systems-oriented approach to software design and problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Materials Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (26)
webbrowser10
web-platform10
parser10
servo10
browser10
webengine10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
dotnet-core10
html10
graphql10
rust10
csharp10
datatable9
fsharp9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chkimes/graphql-net
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Convert GraphQL to IQueryable
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 25 PRs, 132 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the `graphql-net` project by adding features related to query argument parsing. Their work included implementing argument parsing in the F# GraphQL parser, and integrating the parsed arguments within the C# project's `Parser` and `Query` classes. The changes suggest a focus on enhancing the GraphQL query capabilities, particularly around handling user-provided input. Furthermore, they made adjustments to the introspection capabilities of the project.
apollo-linkiqueryablegraphqlgraphiql
servo/servo
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Chad primarily worked on enhancing the Servo web browser engine. Their contributions included adding an "input" event for HTMLInputElements, de-duplicating event-handling code, and removing global fields from various DOM objects such as Blob, CanvasRenderingContext2D, and XMLHttpRequest. They also updated FileReader, FormData, Storage, WebSocket, WebGLRenderingContext, and Worker with the removal of deprecated global field instances.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
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