Michael Kestner
Senior Engineering Manager at Electronic Arts (EA)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Kestner is a seasoned engineering leader with 24 years of experience building and scaling software teams and systems across major gaming and enterprise companies. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Electronic Arts—rising from Senior Software Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager and Technical Director—and previously contributed to platforms at Sony, Novell, and Alcatel‑Lucent. He blends deep hands‑on engineering expertise with people leadership, shipping complex, high‑performance software for large teams and live services. Known for longevity in platform and systems work, he focuses on reliability, scalable architectures, and mentoring engineers to deliver product value at scale.
24 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Benedictine University
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Github Skills (42)
ios10
garbage-collector10
ecma10
revit-api10
foundation10
windows10
ide10
xamarin10
linux10
dotnet10
cil10
cross-platform10
monodevelop10
gjs10
desktop10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mono/gnome-sharp
Jul 2006 - Oct 2010
Bindings to the core Gnome APIs
Contributions:67 commits in 4 years 3 months
gjsgnome-shell-extensiongnome
mono/gtk-sharp
Sep 2001 - May 2012
Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
Contributions:1687 commits in 10 years 9 months
dotnetwindowsmonolinuxgui
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