Kevin Simons

@ksimons

CTO @kitemaker.co

Joined August 2020

About

I'm an American living in Oslo

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I am available for mentoring, particular for engineers that have ambitions to, are about to, or have made the leap to leadership positions.

Kevin Simons's blogs

Kitemaker blogblog.kitemaker.co10 posts

@ksimons

Kevin Simons

@ksimons

Website

CTO @kitemaker.co

Joined August 2020

About

I'm an American living in Oslo

Available for

I am available for mentoring, particular for engineers that have ambitions to, are about to, or have made the leap to leadership positions.

Kevin Simons's blogs

Kitemaker blogblog.kitemaker.co10 posts

Recently published

blog.kitemaker.co

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

A few weeks ago, the Kitemaker team was working on diagnosing a performance problem one of our larger customers reported. A few seconds after loading Kitemaker, the app would freeze up for several seconds before becoming responsive again. After diggi...

Feb 9, 20235 min read

blog.kitemaker.co

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

When building a product, it’s important that everyone on the team has a shared understanding of what to build, why it’s important, and a plan for how to make it real. The most common way to get the team aligned is to write a document containing all t...

Jan 18, 20236 min read

blog.kitemaker.co

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

At Kitemaker, we recently made the leap to Recoil.js for our React state management needs. Before using Recoil, Kitemaker used a simple state management solution built upon useReducer(). We built Kitemaker to be super fast, responding to every user i...

Oct 12, 20227 min read

blog.kitemaker.co

Issue trackers considered harmful

Issue trackers are great at what they were built for. Namely, tracking bugs. But using them for tracking a product development workflow has a lot of issues, perhaps not widely known in the tech community. Most product development frameworks, like Scr...

Aug 23, 20224 min read

blog.kitemaker.co

Empower your engineers

I recently read a great article by Gergely Orosz called "What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not", and in it he makes a few points that really resonated with me as an engineering leader: Treat engineers ...

Jan 14, 20214 min read

Kevin Simons

About

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Kevin Simons's blogs

Kevin Simons

About

Available for

Kevin Simons's blogs

Recently published

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

Issue trackers considered harmful

Empower your engineers

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Kevin Simons

About

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Kevin Simons's blogs

Kevin Simons

About

Available for

Kevin Simons's blogs

Recently published

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

Issue trackers considered harmful

Empower your engineers