Kyle Erf
Co-founder & Technical Director at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Erf is a Co-founder and Technical Director with 13 years of software engineering experience, blending startup grit with past roles at Google and MongoDB. He specializes in backend systems, database design, and distributed infrastructure—work reflected in contributions to Evergreen, a distributed CI system used at MongoDB. Based in New York, he also leads a game development studio and brings a creative edge from long-standing writing roles with The Hard Times and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. A former Golang expert, he moves comfortably between production engineering and product-focused leadership, often refactoring complex data models to improve reliability and extensibility. Collected humanities training (BA in Computer Science and Religion from Swarthmore) informs his pragmatic yet inventive approach to engineering and team-building.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science; Religion, BA, Computer Science; Religion at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (9)
databases10
go10
querying10
database-design10
database10
artifacts9
artifactory9
artifact9
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
evergreen-ci/evergreen
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
A Distributed Continuous Integration System from MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 275 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on refactoring database-related code within the model package and implemented changes to the artifact management features. The commits involve modifications to test files, database queries, and the artifact file model, which suggests the user was involved in database design, code improvements, and artifact management. The changes involve expanding the utility of the code, including the ability to apply and integrate external code and data.
continuous-integrationmongodb
3rf/codecoroner
Jul 2014 - Jul 2019
tool for detecting unused functions and variables in Go source code
Contributions:81 commits, 6 PRs, 51 pushes in 5 years
go
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