Kyle Sponheim
Engineering Manager at Zendesk
Redlands, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Sponheim is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of technology and product experience, currently leading teams at Zendesk after a decade of hands-on SaaS engineering and consulting. He blends Ruby on Rails and React expertise with a data-driven approach to automation, scaling web applications and orchestration of high-volume email systems. At NationBuilder he progressed from trainer and data services lead to senior engineer, building integrations, reducing deployment risk with automated tests, and delivering an email scheduling system that supported hundreds of millions of sends. Kyle is comfortable shifting between code, operations, and people management—having built internal Rails tools that cut fulfillment times over 50% and trained dozens of users on best practices. Based in Redlands, CA, he pairs product instincts from political organizing and campaign work with a pragmatic engineering mindset that favors measurable impact over vanity features. His background shows a recurring pattern: find repetitive pain, automate it, and measure the outcome.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Political Science, B.A., Political Science at California State University-Channel Islands
Github Skills (12)
carrierwave8
api5
storage5
queue4
dispatcher4
dropbox3
rackspace2
amazon1
uploading1
aws1
amazon-s31
aws-s31
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sponee/concentration_game
Mar 2017 - Nov 2019
Two-Player Concentration Game as a Rails App
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
rails-apprailsrubyconcentration-gametwo-player
sponee/deckbuilder
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:67 PRs, 122 pushes, 57 branches in 3 years 4 months
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