Steve Kinney
Entrepreneur In Residence at Redpoint
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Kinney is an engineering leader and AI-focused entrepreneur in residence with 13 years of experience building developer tools, frontend platforms, and high-performing teams from startup proofs-of-concept to product-scale systems. Former Head of Frontend Engineering at Temporal and Principal Engineer at SendGrid/Twilio, he has a track record of shipping revenue-driving UI products and modern web architectures using React, TypeScript, and Electron. He teaches widely for Frontend Masters, co-founded Turing’s front-end program, and organizes the DinosaurJS community—bridging education, community building, and production engineering. Based in Denver, he now iterates on AI startup ideas while investing with Denver Angels, combining hands-on product work with strategic company-building. Notably, his open-source contributions range from Electron modernization to practical React/Firestore demos that reflect a focus on developer experience and front-end reliability.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Certificate Educational Leadership and Technology, Advanced Certificate Educational Leadership and Technology at New York Institute of TechnologyMasters Special Education, Masters Special Education at Hunter CollegeBachelors Sociology, Bachelors Sociology at Rutgers University
English
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
electron10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
hook9
context-api9
nodejs9
error-handling6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
stevekinney/react-and-typescript-projects
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on updating and re-organizing files, particularly within the character card example project. These changes included updates to dependencies and file structure. The user implemented a counter example with hooks and events and added a theme context to a color swatch project. The user demonstrated the use of React and Typescript to build interactive components, suggesting a focus on UI development.
stevekinney/think-piece
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
A demostration application for working with Firebase and Cloud Firestore
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on building the front-end components for a "think-piece" application. They created core React components such as `Application`, `AddPost`, `Post`, `SignUp`, `SignIn`, `Comment`, `CurrentUser`, `AddComment`, and `Comments`. The commits demonstrate the implementation of user interface elements, data display, and basic user interaction features, showcasing their ability to build a complete user interface within the application's scope.
firebasecloud-firestorefirestore
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