Kevin Mikles
Engineering Lead, Accessibility at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Mikles is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience building inclusive, high-performance user-facing applications, currently leading Accessibility for LinkedIn Learning Solutions in San Francisco. He manages a cross-disciplinary team of engineers and designers to ensure accessible, scalable experiences across learner apps, admin tools, content, and integrations, and previously led initiatives in performance, server-side rendering, and shared UI components. Kevin combines deep front-end craftsmanship—dating back to Flash and complex iframe/ads systems—with people-first management and a track record of launching features like Clipping, Learning Paths, and custom content at scale. He’s known for practical engineering stewardship (running infrastructure committees and accessibility audits) and for mentoring engineers through growth and performance coaching. Outside work he’s a lifelong hacker and grilled-cheese enthusiast, a detail that hints at a curious, playful approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Technical Communication, Bachelor of Science (BS) Technical Communication at Eastern Michigan University
Github Skills (51)
animation10
mp310
animated10
gesture10
cjs10
image-uploader10
cloudinary-sdk10
react-native9
javascript9
responsive-images9
video-upload9
cloudinary9
flash9
react9
html5-video9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gvsboy/ghostcube
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:110 commits, 63 pushes, 18 comments in 10 months
gvsboy/treasure
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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