Kessy Similien
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKessy Similien is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack, enterprise-grade web applications and Office 365/SharePoint solutions. Currently focused on Node.js, ES6, React, GraphQL/Apollo and serverless architectures at Pinterest, she combines hands-on component work—contributing to Pinterest’s Gestalt React UI library—with product-facing trust and safety leadership. Her background spans performance-driven refactors, automation of manual processes, and deployment pipeline redesigns that cut load times and accelerate releases. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, she has a proven knack for diagnosing obscure platform issues (including reverse-engineering undocumented APIs) and translating business requirements into scalable technical designs.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Management Information Systems at Carleton University
English, French
Github Skills (10)
uid10
javascript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
react10
props9
prop9
css8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/gestalt
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 14 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kessy primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of React UI components within the Gestalt design system. Their work involved fixing prop types, refactoring components to functional components, adding new components like Typeahead, and updating existing components such as Button and Video to improve functionality and styling. The user also addressed accessibility issues and enhanced the user interface with various improvements, as evidenced by the code changes and associated commit messages.
reactlanguage-designjavascriptreact-ui-componentspinterest
simkessy/spdash-web
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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