Kyle Cesmat

Director of Engineering

Denver, Colorado, United States11 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led projects impacting over 100 million users.
Expert in scaling frontend applications and teams.
Innovative leader in AI tools for developer productivity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on frontend development and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipFrontend DevelopmentUser Interface DesignWeb Development

Other Skills

AI ToolsDeveloper ProductivityReact NativePerformance EngineeringAttributionObservabilityCI ToolingPerformanceReliabilityClient PerformanceLatency EngineeringProject ManagementTeam LeadershipRealtime Trading PlatformWebSocket Framework

About

An experienced technical leader focused on frontend platform, realtime data applications, measuring & scaling quality, and enabling engineers to ship world-class apps. I've worked on web & native applications you've used, using the latest technologies and scaling teams of all shapes & sizes. Have led projects varied in scope from 10 users to 20mil users, across mobile & desktop devices, and platforms for public/private use.

Experience

Coinbase

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Currently: Building AI Tools to 10x developer productivity.
Previously: EM of Retail App Infra, a frontend-focused team scaling quality, improving performance, and delivering a world-class web + React native platform enabling the Coinbase App to ship to 100m+ users worldwide.
Some key projects my team has landed include:
Drastically decreasing error cases across the app by improving attribution, observability, and enforcing guardrails across the Retail org.
Scaling developer productivity with advanced build systems, AI-enabled PR reviews, OTA release pipelines, and advanced CI tooling.
Improving P95 rendering & startup performance on the iOS & Android mobile apps.
Instrumenting and improving CUJ latency, optimizing client data-loading for scale, and ultimately ensuring Coinbase is resilient/performant during peak market activity.

AI ToolsDeveloper ProductivityFrontend DevelopmentReact NativePerformance EngineeringEngineering Leadership

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

Eng lead on Coinbase mobile app. Focusing on react native infrastructure, performance, and reliability.

React NativePerformanceReliabilityFrontend Development

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Prior: Client performance & latency lead
Prior: Advanced trading for Coinbase Prime Trading

Client PerformanceLatency EngineeringFrontend Development

Formidable

3 roles

Engineering Manager + PHX Location Lead

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

As a location lead and Engineering Manager, I ensure our projects are properly scoped, staffed, and executed and that my team of engineers is empowered and supported to do their best work. During this time I planted the PHX office, hired 8 engineers, and helped define Formidable's distributed work environment.

Project ManagementTeam LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Some problems I have helped solve:
Architected a realtime advanced trading platform for Tagomi (acq Coinbase), a prime-broker cryptocurrency platform. Led team of 6 engineers focused on custom websocket framework, performance engineering, and complex UI.
Created a large server-rendered app using lerna, custom babel transpilation, various node API services for a biosciences company
Led team of 8 to platform an e-commerce experience for MilliporeSigma using GraphQL, custom pattern library, and static site generation.

Realtime Trading PlatformWebSocket FrameworkPerformance EngineeringFrontend Development

Software Engineer III

May 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

I consult along a wide spectrum of specialties, including building UI-intensive greenfield applications, helping teams better organize & scale development process, architecting reusable code & modules, building release pipelines/process, and overall advancing product development using the latest technologies.
Some problems I have helped solve:
A user-event-driven mapping dashboard utilizing mapbox, redux-saga, flow
Reusable UI & node-service libraries for Ookla/Speedtest
Data-driven SVG gauge/animations for a healthcare analytics startup

UI DevelopmentMapping DashboardReusable CodeFrontend Development

Synapse studios

UI Engineer

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Tempe, AZ

My role at Synapse included designing interfaces that promote intuitive interaction, usability, and comprehension of our clients' web apps, as well as developing the designs into functioning frontend code. Synapse is a unique dev shop that works with startups, corporations, and large agencies to build advanced web apps.

UI DesignFrontend Code DevelopmentUser Interface Design

Recruiting.com

Web Developer

Feb 2014 – Jan 2015 · 11 mos · Scottsdale, AZ

I was part of the sites team that worked to design & develop career sites used by companies to attract job seekers. I was also involved in maintaining & improving user experiences on the Jobing.com platform.

Web DevelopmentUser Experience