Kyle Combs
Lead Engineer at Engel & Völkers
Ridgway, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Combs is a pragmatic engineering leader with 8 years of experience building scalable JavaScript and cloud-native platforms, now serving as VP of Engineering for Engel & Völkers Americas. He combines hands-on full‑stack expertise in TypeScript, React, Node.js and AWS with a track record of modernizing stacks, shipping auth SDKs, and optimizing hundreds of CloudFormation stacks for performance and security. Previously he led high-output teams at Codesmith, where he drove a migration to TypeScript and functional React while mentoring engineers and owning core product surfaces. As co-founder and maintainer of the open-source Swell tool, he designed developer-facing solutions for streaming APIs (SSE, WebSockets, gRPC) and added Electron-based UI improvements still used by the community. Kyle is as comfortable shaping engineering strategy and roadmaps as he is debugging production concurrency and dependency issues, and he brings a background in psychology to his people-first approach to team development. Based in Ridgway, Colorado, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery and a passion for developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
electron10
user-interface10
react10
css9
html9
http7
websocket7
api7
user-experience6
filepermissions6
docker6
typescript6
nrwl-nx6
ux-design6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Swell
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 209 commits, 103 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project. They added support for Electron to the project, integrating it with the existing React-based front end and created new UI components, including modals and the handling of cookies for HTTP1 calls. The user further worked on improving the user interface, and they also appear to be involved in creating a more user-friendly presentation of the data, with the implementation of a graph to visualize the results and to display the cookies in a nice table.
grpcendpointsendpointswellmonitoring
texpatnyc/LiveTonight
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes in 9 months
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