Summary
Randall Koutnik is a staff software engineer based in the Greater Boston area with about a decade of experience delivering scalable web and data-driven systems. He is currently a Staff Software Engineer at Figma (since 2024), known as a technical debt broker and user advocate who helps teams ship reliable software that serves users well. His career spans Netflix, Slack, Jellyfish, Jeli, Norse Corporation, and other startups, blending enterprise UI engineering, internal tooling, and data-streaming leadership. At Norse Corporation he led full-stack JavaScript work, built a data processing pipeline with Kafka and RabbitMQ, orchestrated deployments with Ansible, and modernized the frontend to Angular while profiling and optimizing performance. He is the author of Build Reactive Websites with RxJS and a frequent conference speaker, bringing a practical, hands-on perspective to reactive architectures and developer experience. Randall holds a BS in Computer Science from Roberts Wesleyan College and previously founded Dormless, LLC, reflecting a cadence of technical depth paired with entrepreneurial insight.
10 years of coding experience