Joel Kemp
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
United States
Summary
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RockstarJoel Kemp is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 15 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale monetization platforms. At Spotify since 2016 he led the architecture and delivery of self-serve ad businesses—building Spotify Ad Studio and paid music promotion offerings from zero to tens of millions in revenue—and now drives cross-team technical alignment for promotion and content monetization across 15+ teams. He blends hands-on backend development (including open-source contributions to JavaScript tooling) with strategic product-facing engineering, reducing redundancy and increasing leverage across complex organizations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design that scales revenue-critical services while keeping delivery velocity high.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
431reputation
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1answer
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
jscs10
testing10
nodejs9
lazy-loading6
npm6
dom-events6
functional-programming6
android6
elixir6
phoenix-framework6
mysql6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jscs-dev/node-jscs
Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
:arrow_heading_up: JavaScript Code Style checker (unmaintained)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 85 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the codebase by implementing and refining JavaScript code style checking rules. They focused on addressing issues related to trailing commas, allowing single-value objects and arrays, and fixing incorrect option names in error messages. These modifications involved altering the code to adhere to specified code style rules and integrating tests. Moreover, the user worked on improving the project's support for stdin input and added tests for various presets.
javascriptjscs
mrjoelkemp/phpepl
Nov 2012 - Feb 2016
The PHP Repl
Contributions:9 releases, 201 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 4 months
php
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