Kendall Gassner
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKendall Gassner is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with a decade of experience building reliable, user-focused software across companies including GitHub, Spotify, Intuit, and Workday. They have progressed from testing and automation early in their career to shipping full-stack features and accessibility-focused engineering at GitHub, now in a senior role. Kendall contributes to open-source tooling—most notably enhancements to intuit/auto’s all-contributors plugin—demonstrating attention to developer experience and README automation. Comfortable across TypeScript and cross-functional teams, they pair pragmatic refactors with feature-driven delivery. Colleagues will find a product-minded engineer who cares about accessibility, documentation, and making contributor workflows smoother.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoSaint Francis Catholic High School
English
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
typescript10
typescripts10
document-generation10
release-automation10
typescript-types10
github9
nodejs9
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
intuit/auto
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Generate releases based on semantic version labels on pull requests.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kendall contributed to the `intuit/auto` repository, focusing on the "all-contributors" plugin. They implemented functionality to initialize and generate contributor lists within the project's README files. Their commits involved modifying TypeScript code, including changes to the plugin's core logic and the integration of the all-contributors CLI tool. The user also refactored and reorganized existing code, ensuring the proper display and generation of contributor information.
publishingjirarelease-automationsemantic-versioningslack
intuit/accessibility-snippets
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
VSCode Snippets created to help developers write accessible code.
Contributions:18 releases, 50 reviews, 154 commits in 1 year 8 months
css-variablesaccessiblevscodevscode-extensionvscode-snippets
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