Kirby Cool
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirby Cool is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berkeley with 11 years building product-focused systems across startups and scaleups. After an early grounding with internships at Shopzilla, Workday, and Okta, he shipped core features at Zenefits and spent six-plus years driving backend and customer-facing engineering at Thanx before joining Discord in 2025. He specializes in taking products from prototype to production, balancing reliability and iteration speed in fast-moving teams. Kirby’s experience spans identity and HR-adjacent platforms to consumer communications, giving him a strong sense for secure, user-centric engineering. Colleagues value his consistent delivery cadence and ability to translate ambiguous product goals into maintainable systems. Based in the Bay Area with a CS degree from UCLA, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (131)
docz10
alexa-skills-kit10
webpush10
steep10
react10
react-component9
validation9
browser9
gatsby9
react-testing-library9
notification9
crud9
rbs9
js9
android-application9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thanx/rpush
Jan 2022 - Sep 2024
The push notification service for Ruby.
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
pushrubynotification-servicenotificationspush-notification
kirbycool/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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