Ky Bishop
Staff Software Engineer at SmartRent
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKy Bishop is a Staff Software Engineer based in Asheville, NC with 13+ years building high-throughput, cloud-native systems and full-stack applications. He designs and ships scalable data pipelines, event handlers, and real-time IoT synchronization, and has repeatedly reduced latency and test runtimes by orders of magnitude. Fluent in Elixir, Rust, Scala, Java, Python, Ruby, and TypeScript, he pairs deep systems work with front-end chops (React/Next.js/React Native) and extensive AWS experience. At SmartRent he led testing and observability transformations, created Quokka to autoformat Elixir to company Credo rules, and drove down noisy alerts to restore on-call trust. He has a track record of turning prototypes into production-grade services and mentoring senior engineers through architectural and cultural change. Outside of work he balances technical curiosity with adventurous hobbies like climbing, paragliding, and fruit growing.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Botany/Plant Biology, Bachelor's degree, Botany/Plant Biology at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (200)
infinite-scroll10
low-level10
ember-cli10
emberjs10
code-analysis10
occlusion10
ember10
floating10
linter10
javascript10
static-analysis10
ember-components10
focus10
html10
tooltips10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kybishop/ember-calendar-primitives
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
kybishop/ember-popper
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Popper.js for Ember
Contributions:17 releases, 111 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 6 months
ember-cliember-addontooltipsemberjsember
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