Darren Kay
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Newberry,FL
Summary
Results-driven, full-stack JavaScript developer with 4 years of hands-on experience building over 30 optimized scalable enterprise web applications using React on the front-end and Node on the backend. Talented team leader with a deep understanding of the agile software development life cycle by building polished user interfaces starting from the green field through testing, and quality assurance to production.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Full-Stack Software Engineer 2
University Of Florida
Gainesville, FL
09.2018 - Current
- Provided leadership on an agile team of software developers that converted over 30 different single-page applications from AngularJS to React.
- Delivered optimized scalable software, back-end, and front-end impacting over 83,000 students, faculty, and staff and their daily online experiences through campus-wide software.
- Optimized software to work with large-scale events that include 200,000 simultaneous actions.
- Upgraded the university's Node.js back-end that interfaces with vendor products providing a consistent and intuitive API for the front-end applications.
- Led a modernization effort of the build process pipeline from Grunt to Webpack thus optimizing the static assets, improving the debugging experience, and reducing build times from 35 minutes to 7.
- Profiled applications to identify and resolve errors, and improve reliability and performance, leading to an enhanced product experience for the users.
- Managed the release process and production deployments.
- Collaborated with colleagues to set up Gitlab continuous integration pipelines and developed automated scripts to streamline the release process.
- Onboarded newly hired junior developers and provided mentorship through peer-to-peer collaboration.
- Led complex, multi-sprint problems that involved collaboration, strategic thinking, and optimized solutions.
The Coop Restaurant
Owner / Operator
Gainesville, FL
05.2009 - 12.2017
- Designed a restaurant brand and built it from the ground up, achieving an average annual revenue of $650,000
- Designed, developed and implemented an employee intranet consisting of a suite of business-related tools that increased productivity, accountability and employee empowerment, resulting in a 6% reduction in the employee turnover rate
- Developed and deployed a custom employee scheduling application that resulted in a reduction of scheduling conflicts and fostered better communication among staff and management
Education
Bachelor of Science - Molecular Biology And Microbiology
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 08.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
React
AngularJS
Nodejs
Vanilla Javascript
Material UI
Jest automated testing
MongoDB
OracleDB
Webpack
React Native
Github
Powershell/Bash
REST APIs
GraphQL
Agile
Continuous Integration
Docker
Timeline
Full-Stack Software Engineer 2
University Of Florida
09.2018 - Current
The Coop Restaurant
Owner / Operator
05.2009 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Science - Molecular Biology And Microbiology
University of Central Florida
08.2004 - 05.2008