Kevin Kelley

Enhanced and optimized a highly scalable event-driven B2B procurement platform backed by Dun and Bradstreet

• Developed customized data ingestion pipelines using S3, Kafka, and OpenSearch
• Integrated a host of third-party products such as SendBird, SendGrid, Tipalti, Intercom, Stripe, and more
• Created and continually modified unit, integration, and synthetic tests to improve software quality and reliability
• Researched and implemented numerous system enhancements and upgrades
• Performed root cause analysis and execution on errors and sub-par performance leveraging Datadog and other metric providers
• Produced proof-of-concept documentation and prototypes for demonstration and evaluation

(Node.js/Nest.js, Postgres, Prisma, GraphQL, Terraform, Aiven, OpenSearch, AWS, Docker)

Actively maintaining the systems of Leftbrain while internal strategy pivots

• Staying the course of industry standards with perpetual updates
• Ensuring security and stability by keeping current with EOL and maintenance windows
• Providing compliance with App store, AWS, and regulatory requisites

(Node.js, React-Native, React, AWS, GraphQL, Postgres)

The all-in-one solution to the technical needs of Lefbrain; promoted an existing MVP to production launch

• Solely responsible for the technology stack of Leftbrain
• Overhauled an existing React-Native mobile app MVP collaborating with design team
• Upgraded and enhanced core API server
• Customized an administrative tool for client onboarding
• Actively sought to implement industry best practice throughout the tech stack

(Node.js, React Native, React, AWS (IAM/Cognito, Cloudfront, RDS, EC2, EBS, etc.), GraphQL, Postgres)

Revamped an existing team by providing initiative, attention to detail, and much-needed morale where performance was at an all-time low

• Stabilized business-critical reporting software used for SEC reporting by streamlining deployment, improving testing, adding monitoring, and promoting rigorous maintenance of the platform
• Developed long-term, cost-effective storage solutions in order to maintain compliance and reduce overhead
• Bolstered team capability and capacity by onboarding and mentoring junior developers

(Ruby, GO, AWS (S3, Lambdas, etc))

Key contributor across multiple initiatives, working directly alongside System Architect and Engineering Director

• Re-wrote a python ingestion/ETL platform in C#
• Implemented numerous back-end solutions to provide enhanced data-manipulation and greater API access
• Developed key components to a variety of roadmap objectives, driving company goals forward
• Mentored junior development professionals to improve coding standards

(C#, Azure, SQL, CosmosDB, MongoDB, python)

Enhanced numerous enterprise-level solutions for a wide variety of clients

• Facebook - built number of CMS microsites from scratch for Facebook for Business, while onboarding and mentoring team members and providing extensive user documentation (9 months, JS (ES6), CSS, HTML, PhP)
• XBOX Live / Gamestop - implemented key user-facing features in an endless-aisle kiosk application (3 months, C#, WCF, WPF)
• Microsoft - created live lab demos for the 2016 Build conference, integrating Skype for Business into android, iOS and web applications (3 months, C#, WCF, WPF, Android, iOs, HTML/JS)
• Americash Loans - enhanced and maintained an azure-based collection of both internal and customer-facing loan management systems (7 months, C#, SQL, Azure)

• Managed major enhancements which streamlined and automated internal software tools
• Provided continuous feedback on standardization, architecture, and conventions of working code set
• Engaged in rigorous testing and optimization of contributed solutions
• Collaborated with QA personnel to ensure high quality, scalable code

(C#, Asp.Net, VB.Net, Webforms, SQL, JS)

(PhP, C#, VB.net, Win/Webforms, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL)

(DB/ C)