Seth Kinast
Software Engineer at Cognitive Development
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Kinast is a frontend-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience building intuitive, performant user interfaces for high-scale consumer products. He has led UI architecture and cross-team initiatives at companies like Facebook/Instagram and LinkedIn, while running his own consultancy, CogDev, which at its peak drove millions of page views. Passionate about "less is more," he specializes in JavaScript, React, Node, HTML5/CSS and tooling such as Redux and Webpack, and prefers hands-on technical leadership roles like staff or principal engineer. Seth has strong people-management experience and a track record of lifting team practices through architecture review, hiring, and mentorship without abandoning day-to-day coding. He’s also contributed to Dust.js, improving its async templating and promise handling—demonstrating an eye for compatibility and evolving JavaScript patterns. Based in New York, he seeks roles where he can shape product vision and ship elegant UI code daily.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Microbiology, B.S. Microbiology at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (30)
asynchronous10
javascript10
jquery10
async10
es6-promise10
jestjs10
jasmine10
templating10
mysql9
react-redux9
redux9
python9
linux9
css9
php9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/dustjs
Mar 2013 - Sep 2016
Asynchronous Javascript templating for the browser and server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 64 commits, 139 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Seth contributed to the Dust.js templating library by addressing several functional aspects and edge cases related to asynchronous operations and context management. Their work included implementing promise resolution within Dust's helpers, ensuring proper escaping of thenable values, and adding streamable data support. These changes improved the handling of asynchronous data sources and enhanced the library's ability to integrate with modern JavaScript features. The user also fixed tests and maintained backwards compatibility with older versions of the compiler.
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sethkinast/dustjs
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 232 pushes, 151 branches in 1 year 8 months
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