Kevin Kehl
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kehl is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end systems and leading engineering craft for high-growth B2B products. At LinkedIn he guided frontend architecture and design review processes for a $4B+ ads business, enabling consistent 40%+ YOY growth across a large, distributed codebase. He’s a hands-on full-stack engineer comfortable from Rails and Ruby to React and Ember, with a track record of shipping performance optimizations like code-splitting and client-side image/heatmap processing. Kevin blends product-minded engineering with technical due diligence and acquisition integration work, and he mentors and trains engineers across organizations. His background in electrical engineering and embedded systems gives him a systems-oriented perspective that surfaces in pragmatic, measurable improvements. Curious by nature, he seeks unique problems and enjoys inventing novel technical solutions throughout the stack.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University
Github Skills (37)
sublime10
elisp10
simplify9
emacs-lsp9
emacs-lisp9
melpa9
emacs-package9
emacs9
text-editing9
vim8
vscode8
javascript8
typescript6
jinja26
template-engine5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Galooshi/emacs-import-js
May 2016 - Jul 2018
Emacs plugin for ImportJS
Contributions:5 releases, 25 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 2 months
elisptext-editingimportjsjavascriptemacs
kevinkehl/import-js
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 comments in 6 months
js-modulesjavascriptimportingsimplifytypescript
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