Paul Kinchla
Software Engineer at Golden Hearts Games
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Kinchla is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience crafting accessible, standards-driven web interfaces and reusable component libraries. Based in Somerville, MA, he blends a designer’s eye (BFA in Graphic Design) with deep front-end engineering skills in TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS/SCSS, and framework-agnostic patterns. He has built design systems and Storybook-driven component libraries at organizations like Harvard Business Publishing and Golden Hearts Games, and has led front-end best practices and mentoring initiatives at WGBH. Comfortable with tooling and Node scripting, he improves developer workflows (e.g., mocking APIs with JSON Schema) as well as end-user experiences, and often surfaces pragmatic, creative solutions that bridge design and engineering.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Middlesex Community CollegeBFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Montserrat College of Art
Github Skills (20)
pushstate10
nav9
ngrok9
underscores9
idris9
dom9
nginx8
pjax8
jquery-ui8
react8
wordpress8
ajax7
javascript7
nextjs7
documentation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pkinchla/sevenpx
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
A Side Project
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
javascriptreact
pkinchla/personal-site
May 2013 - Dec 2022
My Personal Site
Contributions:2 reviews, 1024 commits, 20 PRs in 9 years 9 months
reactnextjs
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