Kyle Newkirk
Senior Frontend Software Engineer at Cedar
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Newkirk is a Senior Frontend Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building high-traffic, user-facing products used by millions. He specializes in modern frontend ecosystems—React/React Native, TypeScript, Vue, Next.js, Lit and design systems—while also contributing backend expertise with Postgres, Python and GraphQL. At Reddit he helped found and ship the company’s first component library and tooling, introducing versioned theming and Storybook integrations; more recently he owned mobile platform upgrades and critical payments features at TruckSmarter. Comfortable leading small teams, mentoring juniors, and running cross-functional guilds, he pairs practical engineering with product-minded UX sensibilities. Outside work he’s delivered JavaScript SDKs for blockchain integrations and has a background coordinating youth sports programs, evidence of strong operational and coaching instincts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (11)
typescript9
typescript-definitions6
dts6
blockchain2
wallet2
cryptocurrency2
ethereum2
mustache2
php2
nodejs1
templating1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Wally-xyz/wally-js
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 45 reviews, 106 commits in 2 months
knewkirk/dotfiles
Jan 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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