Experience
Daybreak Health
Engineering Manager
2023-2024
Lead Frontend Engineer
2021-2023
As the first eng hire at this mental health startup, I created and
architected the React/Typescript SPA frontend while also
contributing significantly to the Rails backend and owning the
ReactNative mobile app. I hired several other fullstack devs,
eventually managing a mixed team of 8 engineers and Salesforce admins.
The Duckbill Group
Lead Product Engineer
2020-2021
As the primary product owner and engineer on DuckTools, a suite of AWS
cost management tools, I wrote everything from Terraform to
React, with Ruby and Go in between.
Brex
Software Engineer
2019-2020
On the Card Product team at this fintech startup, I built user-facing
features and accounting integrations across the
Typescript React frontend and Elixir microservice
backend.
Joyable
Lead Backend Engineer
2014-2019
As a full stack developer using Angular.js (later React) and
Ruby on Rails, I helped this mental health startup grow from 5
to 40 people. I built many user-facing features, improved frontend
performance, built payment + subscription systems, wrote internal
tools, built most of the API, drove the transition to an SPA,
managed/developed the Docker-based infrastructure, and
hired/mentored other engineers.
Threadflip
Software Developer
2013-2014
I did full stack development with Rails, Coffeescript,
and Backbone at this two-sided ecommerce marketplace startup. I
worked on user-facing features, internal tools, refactoring, and
optimization.
Expensify
Software Engineer
2011-2013
I was an early developer at this SaaS expense reporting startup
working on both the PHP backend (bank apis, a Mechanical Turk
system, receipt parsing) and the JS frontend.
Projects
A Golang tool to quickly register + spin up new sites with S3,
Cloudfront, ACM, and Route53 on AWS.
An asynchronous, web-based chat with no JS at all (by abusing the http
protocol + css). Built to probe the limits of webapps.
A humorous, but functional, url shortener using AWS Lambda and
no datastore in Python.
Other Projects
A bot that generates fake AWS announcements. An infinite-scrolling
wall of random imgur images in Angular. A tiny Javascript physics
engine. A mobile-friendly React site for browsing filtered travel
destinations. A Ruby twitterbot that completes Hamilton lyrics. And
others at
kevinkuchta.com