Kelvin Whyms
Spanaway
Summary
A software engineering professional with strong record of delivering impactful software solutions. Known for excellent problem-solving abilities and collaborative approach, effectively leading and contributing to team success. Highly adaptable to evolving project requirements and dedicated to achieving excellence through technical expertise and teamwork.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer
SIEMENS
06.2023 - Current
- Worked with a diverse team of developers and designers to build custom component libraries for Siemen's external customer facing website(s)'
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Company Overview: AWS Talent Acquisition
- Collaborated with non-technical colleagues in AWS Talent Acquisition and Amazon Fulfillment to design intuitive solutions to daily problems
- Designed and developed full stack web based solutions to automate away superfluous manual tasks in the AWS Talent Acquisition recruiting processes
- Led the design and implementation for all full stack web development (AWS/CDK/CloudFront/ECS/DynamoDB/FastApi/Python/NodeJs/ReactJs)
- Participated in peer training sessions to help team mates gain more confidence and experience with full stack development
- Led frontend specific training sessions on ReactJS for developers who were new to frontend development
- AWS Talent Acquisition
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
05.2017 - 04.2022
- Company Overview: WORLDWIDE ACES
- Designed the first Kindle application in the Amazon Fulfillment network capable of withstanding frequent wifi drops in Amazon fulfillment centers (ReactNative/ReactJS/Javascript/Java)
- Headed a pillar of my team known as the Emerging Projects Team (AWS/CDK/ReactJS/ReactNative/Javascript/Java)
- Tutored interns and colleagues in mobile development using React Native via both hands on project guidance and maintaining internal documentation
- WORLDWIDE ACES
Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin
03.2016 - 05.2017
- Responsible for finding and fixing any major bugs that arose daily
- (Java/Bash/Javascript/C++/Perl/Python/SQL)
- Recovered lost code not received during handoff from previous contracting agency by learning to read Java byte code to manually reconstruct .war files
- (Java/Bash)
- Simplified the UI to allow for a more intuitive user experience
- (Javascript/ExtJS)
Senior Software Engineer
United States Department of State
06.2010 - 01.2016
- Sole developer for the United States Department of State intranet search engine
- Responsible for performing full stack updates and maintenance on the search engine
- Responsible for training the and fine tuning the search engine’s natural language processing engine
- Developed a feature that allowing State Department search engine users to run daily automated searches for topics of interest
- Relevant technologies: Java, Javascript, JSTL, JSP, MySQL
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, VA05-2017
Skills
- Object-oriented programming
- API development
- Backend development
- Git workflow
- DevOps principles
- Web application development
Timeline
Software Development Engineer
SIEMENS
06.2023 - Current
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
04.2022 - 04.2023
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
05.2017 - 04.2022
Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin
03.2016 - 05.2017
Senior Software Engineer
United States Department of State
06.2010 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Christopher Newport University
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