Kyle Van Essen
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Van Essen is a seasoned product-focused engineering leader with 13+ years building mobile platforms and design systems, primarily at Square where he led UI Systems for Android and iOS and shipped a unified design system across 15+ seller-facing products. He began as a designer and iOS engineer, founded a widely downloaded OS X app early in his career, and transitioned into management roles that blended design, hiring, and career ladder programs. Kyle specializes in scaling UI frameworks and tooling to enable consistent experiences at product scale, and has deep hands-on experience across iOS, Android, and web. Based in San Francisco, he combines a designer’s attention to detail with engineering rigor, making design not just aesthetic but how the product works.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Carleton University
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Github Skills (72)
ocmock10
collectionview10
xcuitest10
cocoa10
security10
kotlin-library10
state-machine10
bug-reporting10
declarative10
uikit10
snapshot-testing10
swiftui10
crypto10
collectionviewlayout10
client-library10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kyleve/Bugs
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
square/microsite
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Micro websites for limited projects at square.github.io/microsite
Contributions:27 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
squaremicrositestatic-site-generator
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