Kyle Simpson

Kyle Simpson

JavaScript Architect & Web Performance Evangelist

Location
Austin, Texas Area
Industry
Internet

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Kyle Simpson's Overview

Current
Past
  • Software Engineer - DevTools at Mozilla
  • Sr. Architect (JavaScript) at appendTo, LLC
  • JavaScript Architect at Innography

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Education
  • Texas State University-San Marcos
  • University of Oklahoma
  • PC North HS
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Connections

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Websites

Kyle Simpson's Summary

Kyle Simpson is a JavaScript Systems Architect from Austin, TX. He focuses on JavaScript, web performance optimization, and "middle-end" application architecture. If something can't be done in JavaScript or web stack technology, he's probably bored by it. He runs several open-source projects, including LABjs, HandlebarJS, and BikechainJS.

More about me: http://getify.me
Photo attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertnyman/5723348183

Specialties

JavaScript systems architecture, Web Performance Optimization

Kyle Simpson's Experience

Sr. Software Engineer

Zynga

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Games industry

October 2011 – Present (5 months) Austin, TX

HTML5/JS game development for Zynga Casino

Co-founder

HubAustin Coworking

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Executive Office industry

September 2011 – Present (6 months) Austin, Texas Area

HubAustin Coworking is south Austin's first coworking space. I helped launch it.

Dev

Getify Solutions

January 2000 – Present (12 years 2 months)

JavaScript, Web Performance Optimization, open-source development

Software Engineer - DevTools

Mozilla

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry

April 2011 – October 2011 (7 months)

Working on making world-class dev-tools for Mozilla products, like Firefox

Sr. Architect (JavaScript)

appendTo, LLC

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry

December 2010 – April 2011 (5 months)

Client- and server-side JavaScript

JavaScript Architect

Innography

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry

May 2010 – December 2010 (8 months)

JavaScript development for enterprise data-information management application

UI Lead

Invodo

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

November 2009 – April 2010 (6 months)

Web based media player (video, photo, 360s) embeddable widget for ecommerce product pages, in JavaScript + HTML5 + Flash

Independent

Consultant

May 2009 – January 2010 (9 months)

Various contract and short-term positions in web UI development

Sr. UI Developer/UX

Demand Media

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DMD; Internet industry

January 2009 – May 2009 (5 months)

.NET UI Design and Implementation

User Experience Architect

Pointserve

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry

June 2007 – January 2009 (1 year 8 months)

UI/UX design, prototyping, usability testing, Flash development

Sr. Presentation Layer Developer

Avenue A | Razorfish

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; pub; Marketing and Advertising industry

July 2006 – June 2007 (1 year)

Primary UI developer on multiple Fortune 500 projects, including Southwest Airlines (http://www.southwest.com/), HEB Grocery (http://www.hebuddy.com/), JiffyLube (http://www.jiffylube.com/), AT&T, Nokia, and Dell.

Web Developer

eLoyalty

Public Company; 201-500 employees; ELOY; Information Technology and Services industry

2004 – 2005 (1 year)

Web Developer

Golfsmith

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOLF; Retail industry

2004 – 2004 (less than a year)

Web Developer

Ambion

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry

2002 – 2003 (1 year)

Kyle Simpson's Publications

  • JSMag Articles

    • JSMag
    Authors: Kyle Simpson

    variety of articles on JavaScript topics, including JavaScript performance, middle-end architecture, games, etc.

  • HTML5 Cookbook

    • O'Reilly
    • November 26, 2011
    Authors: Kyle Simpson, Christopher Schmitt

    Dive deep into the latest HTML5 features that really make the language shine -- everything from markup semantics to Canvas, web forms, application protocols, and the latest JavaScript APIs.

  • JavaScript: The Complete Reference (3rd Ed)

    • McGraw-Hill
    Authors: Kyle Simpson, Thomas Powell

    I've written chapters on Objects/Prototypes and on JS Performance

Kyle Simpson's Education

Texas State University-San Marcos

B.S., Computer Science

2004 – 2008

University of Oklahoma

Coursework, Computer Science

1998 – 2000

Activities and Societies: UOSA (University of Oklahoma Student Association), HCSA (Housing Center Student Association), Honors College

PC North HS

Diploma

1994 – 1998

Activities and Societies: SUN (Students United of North), National Honor Society, Odyssey of the Mind

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Interests:

JavaScript, Web Performance Optimization, UI Architecture, User Interface, User Experience

Groups and Associations:

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