Ronald Kimball
Principal Engineer at Ankored, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRonald Kimball is a Principal Engineer with 28 years of hands-on software development experience, currently leading engineering at Ankored in Minneapolis. He is fluent in JavaScript/ES6, React+Redux, Perl, MongoDB and a long-time debugger who excels at tracking down elusive bugs and hardening systems. Ronald has driven backend quality and test automation on notable open-source projects like rest-hapi, updating test suites for cross-version compatibility and adding flexible API preprocessing features. His career spans senior technical roles at Uberflip, SnapApp and earlier platform work, demonstrating consistent delivery of reliable web and API systems at scale. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and deep regex and tooling expertise, he combines legacy-language fluency with modern JavaScript architecture. He holds a CS degree from Dartmouth and a track record of quietly improving stability and developer productivity across teams.
28 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (14)
hapi10
rest-api10
nodejs10
javascript10
api10
sinon10
test-automation10
validation9
validations9
mongoose9
apim8
api-design8
mongodb6
nosql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JKHeadley/rest-hapi
Aug 2017 - May 2018
🚀 A RESTful API generator for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits, 11 PRs, 15 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ronald primarily focused on improving the test suite for the `rest-hapi` project. They addressed issues related to compatibility with newer versions of testing libraries like `sinon`, ensuring tests function correctly. Furthermore, they adapted tests to accommodate changes in assertion error messages across different Node.js versions. These changes demonstrate a commitment to maintaining the quality and reliability of the API generator. The user also added pre-processing features to the list and find handler, improving the API's flexibility.
hapi-serverhapi-pluginexpresshapijscrud
tamias/words
Mar 1998 - Nov 2012
Contributions:87 commits in 14 years 11 months
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