Kevin Simons
VP Of Engineering at Scrimba
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Simons is a VP-level engineering leader and founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building products and teams across startups and large enterprises, currently leading engineering at Scrimba from Oslo. He combines pragmatic, execution-first leadership—believing running code should always trump slides—with a track record of founding and scaling Kitemaker and leading strategic engineering initiatives at Telenor and Schibsted. Kevin’s background spans embedded systems and mobile (Qt, WebKit, Firefox OS) to cloud-scale services and data/insights, enabling him to bridge low-level performance tradeoffs and high-level product strategy. He’s comfortable both as a principal engineer and as a people leader who accelerates small, talented teams to outsized outcomes. A Y Combinator alumnus and MS in Computer Science from Tufts, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep technical versatility to fast-moving product organizations.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
W21 batch, W21 batch at Y CombinatorMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Tufts UniversityBA Computer Science Music, BA Computer Science Music at Colby College
Github Skills (67)
drag10
wysiwyg10
sortable10
javascript10
tencent10
browser10
editor10
rich-text10
text-editor10
draft-js10
slate10
editors10
contenteditable10
rte10
rich-text-editor10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kitemakerhq/docs
Jan 2021 - May 2024
API documentation for the Kitemaker developer API
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
apicontractsapi-documentation
kitemakerhq/slate
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors.
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
contenteditabletext-editorswysiwygrich-text-editorrich-text
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