Kyle Moore
Senior Staff Engineer at Guidewire Software
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Moore is a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operationalizing large-scale build and automation systems from San Francisco. He has led Gradle build platform efforts at LinkedIn supporting builds for 15,000+ microservices and libraries and later drove product and pre-sales engineering at Gradle Inc., blending deep engineering with customer-facing technical leadership. His open-source contributions include meaningful backend and build-system work on high-profile projects like linkedin/rest.li and Gradle itself, tackling deterministic code generation, PathingJar optimizations, and Java toolchain and test framework integrations. At Guidewire and across earlier consulting roles he has repeatedly modernized build pipelines and developer workflows for complex enterprise codebases. Collected experience across platform engineering, presales, and large org build systems gives him a rare combination of hands-on codecraft and strategic delivery insight. He also brings an interdisciplinary background (BA in Computer Science and East Asian Studies) that reflects a habit of connecting technical depth with broader perspective.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science East Asian Studies, B.A. Computer Science East Asian Studies at DePauw University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
ivy10
groovy10
java10
javas10
code-generation10
build-automation10
gradlew10
gradle10
api-design9
restful-api9
unit-testing9
api-rest9
dependency-management9
toolchain9
rest-api9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:238 reviews, 473 commits, 71 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the Gradle build system, making improvements and fixing issues related to Java toolchains, test frameworks, and dependency management within the Gradle project. Their contributions included adding support for new toolchain vendors, refactoring the build process for more efficient configuration, enhancing test reporting, and incorporating specific fixes for Groovy and Java version compatibility issues. The user also played a role in integrating and refining the testing framework, test suite and plugin features within the codebase, showcasing a focus on build automation.
pythongradlegroovyautomationjava
linkedin/rest.li
Feb 2020 - May 2021
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle's primary focus appears to be on improving the build and generation processes within the `linkedin/rest.li` repository. They worked on deterministic ordering of method definitions, likely related to code generation. Further contributions involved optimizing the build process by using `PathingJarUtil`, addressing argument list length issues and refactoring the code generation task to accept an argument file using the '@' syntax. The user also contributed to integrating modern Ivy publication behavior and feature variants.
architecturesapiscalableasynchronousrestful
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