Summary
Kyle Morehead is a Senior Back End Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in JavaScript and a knack for designing systems where a single, well-placed change can propagate cleanly across the codebase. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he has led teams through rapid growth and acquisitions—most notably scaling Limelight Health from Series A to a $75M acquisition—and currently drives backend architecture at brightwheel. Kyle thrives in accountable, collaborative squads and has practical expertise in configurable, multi-tenant systems, PII protection, and performance optimization (including a tenfold client-side caching improvement). His background in genetics and lab workflows gives him a methodical, data-minded approach to engineering and quality, while his history mentoring and interviewing developers shows a commitment to growing engineering craft across teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Tracy high school
Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology at UC Davis
Danish