Daniel Kempner
Software Engineer at Instacart
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Kempner is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building resilient web platforms and frontend architectures. Currently leading Web Platform Engineering at Instacart, he previously guided frontend migrations and teams at Lyft, and worked on Cloud + AI at Microsoft, giving him a strong blend of platform-level thinking and hands-on implementation. His background spans fintech and startups through roles at LPL Financial and MREN, and he has a history of mentoring and teaching—volunteering to teach kids to code—which reflects a talent for translating complex concepts for diverse audiences. Trained in psychology, he brings an uncommon user-centered lens to engineering decisions and team leadership, balancing technical depth with empathy for product and people.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (169)
storybook10
windows10
apollo-client10
hybrid10
javascript10
linux10
browser10
flexbox10
react-framework10
interactive10
apollographql10
compiler10
js10
cli10
visibility10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dkempner/reakit
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Toolkit for building accessible rich web apps with React
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
reactaccessibleweb-appstoolkitwcag
dkempner/craigspup
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
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