Kurt Preston
Lead Software Engineer at DRW
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Preston is a Lead Software Engineer in Chicago with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications and data-driven tools. He favors TypeScript, JavaScript, and Ruby, and has led teams delivering real-time interactive reports, streaming media interfaces, and robust Rails APIs. His background spans startups and enterprise environments—from prototyping e-commerce features and analytics at Inventables to architecting next-gen reporting and trend-detection systems at OpinionLab. At DRW he applies that breadth to higher-scale engineering challenges, combining strong front-end visualization experience (D3/Angular era) with backend search and microservice design. Trained in computer engineering and medical informatics, he brings a systems-oriented mindset and an unusual blend of design sensitivity and data-focused engineering. He’s continually exploring new languages and tooling, treating code as a creative medium as much as a technical craft.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Engineering / Science, Technology & Society, BSE, Computer Engineering / Science, Technology & Society at University of MichiganNon-Degree, Medical Informatics, Non-Degree, Medical Informatics at Northwestern UniversityMCS, Computer Science, MCS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (200)
animated10
qunit10
bundler10
tabular10
tslint10
json10
multi-window10
commonjs10
fast-xml-parser10
splitting10
nodejs10
utilities10
css10
lodash10
windowing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
KurtPreston/vimcolors
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:876 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
KurtPreston/vim-autoformat-rails
Apr 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year 1 month
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