Kevin Ness
Senior Software Engineer at Mimic
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ness is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building production applications and open-source tooling, currently working at Mimic after roles at Gage ML and Staples. He bridges frontend and backend development—starting with vanilla JS and React and moving into systems work—while contributing notable backend enhancements to the Boa JavaScript engine in Rust (implementing Array.prototype.at, async generator parsing, and several built-ins). An avid learner with a penchant for fixing inefficiencies, he has shipped automation that scaled content operations across tens of thousands of products and now focuses on date/time, internationalization, and interests in garbage collectors and automatic memory management. Outside of code he brings strong communication chops from editorial and teaching roles and is an Eagle Scout, which speaks to his discipline and practical problem-solving.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA English Language and Literature General, Master of Arts - MA English Language and Literature General at Boston CollegeBachelor's degree English Language and Literature General, Bachelor's degree English Language and Literature General at Illinois State University
Github Skills (6)
parserator10
parser10
rust10
javascript-engine10
lexer10
ecmascript10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
boa-dev/boa
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:578 reviews, 16 commits, 190 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed significantly to the Boa Javascript engine, implementing the `Array.prototype.at()` method. They added hashbang lexer support across the lexer and parser. Additionally, the user implemented Async Generator Parsing and made core updates to the byte compiler and opcodes. Furthermore, the user was involved in implementing several built-in ECMAScript objects like `JsMap`, `JsDataView`, `JsRegExp`, and `JsGenerator`.
javascript-engineboarustjavascriptruntime
nekevss/boa
Oct 2021 - Feb 2025
Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language.
Contributions:64 PRs, 291 pushes, 35 branches in 3 years 5 months
javascript-engineboarustjavascriptwebassembly
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