Hello World, I’m Kevin

What I’ve Done

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  ALLO Communications

  Software Engineer

  • ALLO Portals - React Applications with AWS AppSync (GraphQL) APIs

    • Architected and re-organized all front-end code into a monorepo structure with Nx to improve code reusability across multiple react applications, and to increase feature delivery speed and quality.

    • Designed and developed a new customer portal to sell services to customers.

    • Built a new admin portal for internal use to manage orders and provide admin tools.

    • Worked directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and demo new features.

    • Established unit and end-to-end testing systems with Jest, Cypress, and Postman.

    • Automated AWS S3 deployment, testing, and security audits with Gitlab Pipelines.

    • Mentored and pair programmed with other developers to teach best practices, clean code patters, accessibility, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) mindsets.

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  Nucamp Coding Bootcamp

  Coding Instructor

  • • Teaching weekend online workshops for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and React.

    • Helping students create their first portfolio websites with React and Bootstrap.

    • Mentoring and advising students as they apply to their first software jobs.

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  Talent Plus, Inc

  Software Developer

  • TalentMine - React App with AWS Node.js Lambdas and Grails Microservices

    • Created a new heavy lifting back-end processing service to automate integrating up to 100,000 new users at once within a minute to ease new client integrations.

    • Used Multi-Threading (Thread Pooling) to run computationally expensive groovy backend tasks in parallel that resulted in up to 90% latency improvements.

    • Used Elasticsearch to index large user datasets and improve data access times.

    • Developed AWS Lambda Node.js APIs to interact with DynamoDB NoSQL databases.

    • Continuously developed new front-end features following Material Design Principles.

  • TalentBank - Grails (Groovy) Web Application with Bootstrap and jQuery

    • Created and maintained Restful APIs in the Grails framework, using GORM and SQL.

    • Added new front-end features using Groovy Server Pages, Bootstrap, and jQuery.

  • Formation-UI - React Component Library with Storybook

    • Led a new initiative to revamp the front-end development process to focus on code reusability, consistency, accessibility, and to implement an official design system to unify UI/UX between all React applications.

    • Set up TypeScript, Rollup, Webpack, Babel, and other JS package configurations.

    • Created reusable React components following React’s Composition and Common Abstraction principles and generated thorough documentation with Storybook.

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  State of Nebraska

  IT Applications Developer

  • ICHARTS - Java Web Application

    • Upgraded web application from Java 5 to Java 8 and the front-end PrimeFaces libraries.

    • Refactored the back-end code structure to follow a modern MVC pattern.

  • RMNPA - Java Web Application

    • Upgraded PDF Generation with Jasper Reports and added new data fields.

• Southeast Community College

  Associate’s, Computer Information Technology

  • Associate’s in Computer Information Technology - with a focus on PC and Web Development

    • Object-Oriented Programming skills for building desktop, web and mainframe applications using Java, C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, and core Object-Oriented concepts for Agile Development in PC and Web Applications.

• University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  Undecided Engineering Student