Steve Kinney
SendGrid
Steve is a principal front-end engineer at SendGrid. He is the director emeritus and founder of the front-end engineering program at the Turing School for Software and Design in Denver, Colorado — a non-profit developer training program. In a previous life, Steve was a New York City public school teacher. He taught special education and web development in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. He currently lives in Denver with his wonderful wife and rambunctious five-year-old.
Steve Kinney's Courses
Rapid Development on AWS: React, Node.js & GraphQL
Learn to build on AWS’ cloud services and its world-class infrastructure to easily add authentication, storage, databases, and APIs into your apps!
Web Performance
Write more efficient JavaScript, optimize rendering performance, load assets faster with a CDN, split loading resources with Webpack and more!Firebase + React: Real-time, Serverless Web Apps
Learn to use Firebase to deploy sophisticated web and mobile applications without having to build your own complex, server-side infrastructure.Build Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with Electron
Build cross-platform desktop apps in JavaScript with Electron. Take your web development skills beyond the browser into building Mac and PC desktop apps!
Workshops with Steve Kinney
Nodebots / Hardware
Using the Johnny-Five library for Node.js, we will learn to make LEDs light up, control Web APIs, read update web pages, pull data in from third-party APIs, and more!AWS for Front-end Engineers (ft. S3, Cloudfront, Route 53, and Lambda@Edge)
Whether you’re getting your next passion project online or deploy SendGrid’s next-generation client-side application, AWS offers fantastic capabilities for front-end engineers.