Kurt Tomlinson
Staff Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Tomlinson is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of multidisciplinary experience building production software across consumer mobile, embedded validation, and large-scale infrastructure. He’s shipped features at Meta (WhatsApp calling), led in-car and mobile experiences at Cruise, and now works on platform-level engineering at Figma, consistently bridging C++, TypeScript, and full-stack web technologies. His background in electrical engineering and early validation roles gives him a rare systems-level perspective—able to trace issues from silicon and firmware through backend services and user-facing apps. Known for rearchitecting delivery systems and leading growth-focused teams, he combines pragmatic engineering with an appetite for challenging, cross-domain problems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMinor in Engineering & Business, Minor in Engineering & Business at Denning Technology & Management Program
English, French, Korean
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Github Skills (92)
gatsby-image10
wiringpi10
cloudinary10
compiler10
gatsby10
static-site-generator10
gatsby-plugin10
fastest10
gatsbyjs10
image10
iframe10
graphql10
frontend10
react10
developer-tools9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloudinary-community/gatsby-transformer-cloudinary
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Use Cloudinary images with gatsby-image for high performance and total control!
Contributions:193 commits, 24 PRs, 27 comments in 7 months
cloudinarygatsbyreactimagetotal
kurttomlinson/gatsby-transformer-cloudinary
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Use Cloudinary images with gatsby-image for high performance and total control!
Contributions:152 pushes, 51 branches, 26 tags in 7 months
gatsbycloudinaryreacttotaltotal-control
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