Summary
- Principal engineer combining platform architecture, developer education, and product operations.
- Runs developer products with ecosystem-scale adoption and sustained commercial success.
Public Work
- Testing Library patterns are referenced in Playwright’s official migration docs; curriculum used by teams at Trulia, Wix, FamilySearch, and BYU.
- Tools and training used by engineers at major technology companies, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.
Experience
Kent C. Dodds Tech LLC — Founder, Independent Educator
2019–Present
Productized education, open source, and community programs.
- Building Epic* training for 49k+ engineers; several-hundred-dollar pricing and enterprise licensing; tens of millions in revenue since 2019.
- Standardized user-centric testing with Testing Library (33m+ weekly downloads); query APIs adopted in Playwright and Vitest.
- Designing Epic Stack as a production-ready reference app (5.5k GitHub stars) with hundreds of OSS projects and significant internal adoption across multiple companies; operating Epic Workshop (epicshop) for hands-on training at scale.
Remix — Director of Developer Experience
2021–2022
DX strategy, docs, community, and events.
- Led DX strategy across docs, community, and events; primary role in Remix CLI and Stacks.
PayPal — Senior/Staff Engineer, Web Infrastructure
2015–2019
Web tooling, platform standards, and product delivery.
- Built `paypal-scripts`, the standard web tooling platform still in use and maintained; saved millions in engineering time.
- PayPal delegate on TC-39.
Skills
TypeScript, Node.js, Bun, Cloudflare, React, Remix · Web architecture, DX tooling, build systems · Testing strategy, performance, observability · AI-assisted development (Cursor) with leading LLMs · Developer education, curriculum design
Recognition
Google Developer Expert (GDE) · Microsoft MVP · GitHub Star
Education
M.S. Information Systems, Brigham Young University (BYU) (2014)
