Jesse Kinkead
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Kinkead is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing scalable systems across startups and large enterprises, currently working on Streamlit and its execution platform at Snowflake. He blends deep backend and infrastructure expertise—Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and data platforms—with a growing passion for frontend UX, having moved from platform leadership at Outreach to hands-on product work. As a founding engineer at Falkon and a senior technologist at Nordstrom and AI2, he’s repeatedly built or retrofitted systems for scale and operational robustness while partnering closely with security and compliance teams. His open-source contributions include practical tooling work on projects like scalariform and Pachyderm, reflecting strength in developer experience and deployment automation. Based in Seattle, Jesse pairs formal CS training (MS, University of Washington) with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, maintainable systems that bridge developer workflows and customer-facing UX.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of WashingtonPre-Engineering, Pre-Engineering at Seattle Central College
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Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
dockers10
scala10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
code-formatting10
docker-compose9
sbt9
distributed-systems9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
scala-ide/scalariform
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Scala source code formatter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 21 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the `scalariform` project by addressing formatting issues in Scala source code. Their work involved fixing bugs related to comment formatting, including the removal of trailing whitespace, and ensuring correct handling of blank lines in multiline comments and context bounds. Additionally, the user implemented new features such as adding an option to add newlines at the end of files. The user also made improvements to the CLI for better user experience.
code-formatterscaladottyformatterscala-js
pachyderm/pachyderm
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the Pachyderm project, focusing on Kubernetes integration. Their work included modifying deployment assets, adding options for customizing deployments with various storage backends, and ensuring compatibility with different Kubernetes environments. They implemented features for local and custom deployments by adding support for role management, image pull secrets, and existing storage classes. Furthermore, the user added support for different output formats such as YAML and JSON, improving the flexibility of the deployment process.
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