KC Beard
Software Engineer at Niteshift
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKC Beard is a product-oriented full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience, now focused on frontend-heavy development and leading fast-moving teams from New York. They have a strong track record at Datadog—progressing from engineer to senior engineering manager—where they helped pivot observability into actionable automation and shipped App Builder from 0 to 1. KC has led end-to-end launches at Blink Health (including the company’s first telemedicine product) and co-founded a startup whose tech was acquired and integrated into commercial computer vision products. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and people leadership, KC repeatedly hires and mentors engineers while delivering user-facing features and infrastructure for scale. Their background includes early-stage product engineering at high-traffic media and consumer startups, reflecting an aptitude for shipping pragmatic, customer-focused solutions under tight timelines.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (84)
hugo10
documentation10
datadog10
javascript9
browser9
react-testing-library9
testing9
e2e9
hosting9
cypress9
test-runner9
wait9
component-testing9
react9
frontend9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kc-beard/dotfiles
May 2019 - Apr 2023
My mac/linux dot files.
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 years
dotkarabinertmuxlinuxdot-files
kc-beard/AAP-Classic
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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