Kyle Mendes
Staff Software Engineer at Discord
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Mendes is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of experience building frontend-first products and leading engineering teams at companies like Discord and Spring Health. He has deep expertise modernizing frontends—spearheading an Angular-to-React rewrite and authoring a 100+ component React library—while also improving delivery through CI/CD and automation. A people-first technical leader, Kyle has hired and managed cross-functional teams, introduced engineering best practices, and scaled release cadence from quarterly to multiple deploys per week. His background in philosophy and early mentoring roles inform a pragmatic, communication-driven approach to design and collaboration. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product intent and technical execution, turning legacy stacks into maintainable, high-velocity platforms.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Nashoba Regional High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Japanese
Github Skills (168)
storybook10
linter10
game-development10
hybrid10
javascript10
browser10
react-framework10
compiler10
ecmascript10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
eslint10
browserslist10
ssg10
code-documentation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kyle-Mendes/kyle.pink
Feb 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Kyle-Mendes/webhook-test
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:204 PRs, 84 pushes, 69 branches in 7 months
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