Scott Kensell

IOS Engineer at Facebook

Seattle, Washington, United States
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Scott Kensell is an iOS engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile experiences at companies from startups to scale-ups, currently working on real-time audio/video calling in Messenger at Facebook. He favors clean code, modular architecture, and fast time-to-release, bringing both product-focused pragmatism and careful engineering to shipping features. Past roles include leading mobile and backend efforts at Mixer and driving transaction UI flows at eBay, with earlier work adding cross-platform collaboration to Prezi’s iOS app. A mathematician by training (M.S. from Central European University), he applies rigorous problem-solving to system design and performance tradeoffs. He also contributes front-end theming work in open-source projects, demonstrating an eye for UX polish as well as technical detail.
code12 years of coding experience
job6 years of employment as a software developer
bookMaster of Science (M.S.), Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.), Mathematics at Central European University
bookBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Tulane University
bookBudapest Semesters in Mathematics
languageshungarian (c1 language exam), english (native)
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Github Skills (6)

html10
css10
pelican10
website-design9
front-end-development9
site-design9

Programming languages (6)

CSSC++Objective-C++Objective-CRubyProcessing

Github contributions (5)

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getpelican/pelican-themes

May 2014 - Jun 2014

Themes for Pelican
Role in this project:
userFront-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the customization of a Pelican theme named "SoMA" for a website. Their work involved modifying the CSS for visual adjustments, including font changes, layout modifications, and removal of elements specific to another project. They also altered the base template to remove references and dependencies on Launchyard, alongside adding a tagline and about link. Additionally, they updated the categories.html, index.html and pygment.css files.
pelicanwordpressthemes
skensell/.scotts_custom

Feb 2015 - Aug 2019

Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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