Guy Kisel
Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolGuy Kisel is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years focused on CI/CD, test automation, and developer productivity, currently advancing build systems for VALORANT at Riot Games from Santa Monica. He has a strong track record building end-to-end automated pipelines—firmware-to-reporting systems at Western Digital, CI-driven test frameworks at TrueCar, and central build tooling for multiple Riot titles—that help teams ship higher-quality software faster. A pragmatic automation lover (I <3 automation), he combines hands-on Python test engineering with tooling and deployment automation to reduce toil and technical debt. Beyond code, he coaches and empowers other engineers to adopt continuous testing practices and better observability. An adventurous problem-solver, he once thru-hiked 1,350 miles of the Appalachian Trail, a hint at his persistence and resilience in tackling long, complex projects.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
North Hollywood High SchoolB.S., Computer Science and Engineering, B.S., Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Irvine
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
precommit10
pytest10
python10
pre-commit-hook10
testing10
git8
linter8
refactoring7
algorithm6
automation6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 37 comments in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Guy focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `pre-commit-hooks` project. They implemented tests for a new feature, the `--django` flag, for the test name checker. Additionally, the user added a test suite for the `check-merge-conflict` hook, ensuring its functionality. Further contributions involved fixing an off-by-one error in line number enumeration and optimizing the `check_case_conflict.parents` functionality, all within the context of testing.
linterpythonboxpre-commitout-of-the-box
guykisel/pre-commit-robotframework-tidy
Oct 2014 - Apr 2020
A pre-commit hook that will run Robot Framework's Tidy tool on all of your robot files
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 7 months
pre-commit-hookpythonpre-commitrobot-frameworkrobot
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