Kevin Kimball
Founder at Smiley Software
Taipei, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kimball is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building ecommerce products and shipping full-stack web applications. He led engineering teams at Le Tote and Dia&Co, driving internationalization, payment integrations, and a metrics-driven culture that materially increased revenue and engagement. At Google he advanced frontend robustness and compatibility contributing to the widely used AMP project, improving components like amp-img and shadow DOM support. Kevin combines hands-on TypeScript/React and Ruby on Rails expertise with product-minded architecture—rewriting key SPAs and moving APIs from REST to GraphQL. Now running Smiley Software from Los Angeles, he focuses on using software to scale ecommerce businesses. He pairs technical leadership with mentorship and a pragmatic bias toward experiments that move business metrics.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsBachelor of Arts, Political Science, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
javascript10
web-components10
performance-optimization10
google-amp10
ampl10
testing10
shadow-dom9
puppeteer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 21 commits, 60 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the AMP framework. Their contributions included enhancing the `amp-img` component by propagating data attributes, which improved the component's functionality. They also addressed shadow DOM-related issues, such as fixing tests broken due to the deprecated `createShadowRoot` API, and integrating shadow AMP v0.js, thus contributing to the framework's compatibility and performance. Moreover, they worked on enhancing testing of the viewport and analytics components.
web-components
kevinkimball/twitter-cards
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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