Kyle Maxwell
Distinguished Engineer & Director, Developer Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Maxwell is a Distinguished Engineer in San Francisco with 17 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems and developer productivity platforms. He led engineering and product-critical infrastructure at Reddit—previously bootstrapping Reddit Games, DevPlatform, and Video—and earlier scaled search and storage systems at Houseparty, Twitter, and Pinterest customers through his startup work. As Founder/CTO of Onemorecloud he helped power tens of thousands of sites with hosted search and engineered distributed search for Pinterest at 10k+ QPS, demonstrating deep expertise in search, storage, and real-time systems. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical low-level improvements to projects like ts-proto to support M1/ARM builds and advanced gRPC/TypeScript features, showing attention to cross-platform devops and codegen details. He combines hands-on engineering with team building—moving Houseparty’s engineering footprint internationally and scaling teams during hypergrowth—making him equally effective as a maker and a technical leader.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (16)
grpc10
arm10
typescript10
docker10
typescripts10
architectures10
protobuffer10
dockers10
protobuf10
typescript-types10
cicd10
architecture10
grpc-web9
nestjs8
go4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stephenh/ts-proto
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
An idiomatic protobuf generator for TypeScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the project by adding support for M1/ARM architecture, modifying Dockerfiles and build scripts to accommodate different architectures. They implemented new features, including generic service definitions and metadata parameters within the generated code. Their work also involved fixing regressions related to wrapper types and the ability to return a Date as a GRPC return value.
idiomaticcode-generationnestjsprotobufgrpc
fizx/sit
Jan 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:264 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
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