Kit Westneat
Co-Founder at PBH Network
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Westneat is a co-founder and seasoned systems engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Lustre, Linux, and high-performance computing. He has deep operational and field experience from roles at DDN and NYU supporting large-scale filesystems and HPC environments, and now applies that expertise running PBH Network. Kit pairs low-level storage and cluster administration skills with hands-on software development, contributing front-end improvements and auction logic to the widely used Prebid.js advertising library. He brings a pragmatic mix of customer-facing field engineering and product-focused development, able to translate complex storage behavior into reliable, deployable solutions. Based in New York, he holds a BA in Computer Science and Political Science and is comfortable working across ops, support, and code to close the gap between infrastructure and application needs. An underrated strength is his track record of improving testing and reliability in both system software and open-source front-end projects.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Political Science, BA, Computer Science, Political Science at Indiana University
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Github Skills (15)
jscript10
adaptor10
javascript10
develop10
adapter10
testing10
header-bidding9
prebid9
htaccess6
visual-studio-code6
facebook-graph-api6
firefox6
linux6
keyboard-shortcuts6
sourcemaps6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/Prebid.js
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 20 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kit contributed to the Prebid.js repository by modifying existing code and adding new features. They updated the adapter for the rhythmone bidder. They also worked on the bid manager and auction process by fixing bugs, implementing features like the rendering of the bids and passing the closure variables to helper functions. Several commits focused on improving the testing of the bid manager and related features.
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
kitwestneat/fbgraph
Jul 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
apinodejs-modulefacebooknodejsgraph
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