Kevin Western
Staff Software Engineer at YouTube
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Western is a software engineering manager with 14 years of experience building web-scale applications and teams at YouTube and Google, grounded in strong full-stack skills across JavaScript, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL and LAMP stacks. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to leadership roles at YouTube since 2015, combining front-end expertise (jQuery, MooTools, CSS, XHTML) with backend and database design and MVC/Agile practices. Kevin has a track record of improving developer workflows—introducing build processes and test automation for JavaScript and PHP—and shipping data-driven features like interactive graphing and analytics. Based in California and trained at the University of Texas system, he pairs practical engineering craftsmanship with operational experience at large-scale consumer platforms. An uncommon strength is his history of bridging legacy web tech and modern engineering practices, making him effective at modernizing mature codebases while mentoring teams.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at University of Texas at TylerComputer Science, Computer Science at Tyler Junior College
Github Skills (48)
javascript10
angularjs10
angular10
typescript9
polymer9
nodejs9
react9
web-framework8
kotlin8
web-performance8
web-developer8
signal8
messenger7
java7
android7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kevinwestern/meal-planner
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
kevinwestern/CarND-Behavioral-Cloning-P3
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
cloningbehavioralbehavioral-cloningudacity
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