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Kevin Voshell

Summary

Established and collaborative technical leader with a strong foundation in operations, fulfillment, and supply chain technology. Equally comfortable tackling complex business challenges, driving technical innovation, and building both internal and external software solutions that are flexible, high-performing, and scalable.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Tech Lead

Home Chef
Chicago, IL
08.2023 - Current
  • Led cross-functional collaboration with team leads, stakeholders, and end users across the business to align technical efforts with operational goals.
  • Guided the implementation of a suite of internal tools that modernized key operations and fulfillment workflows, resulted in significant savings in both time and cost, and reduced waste associated with paper-based processes.
  • Built monitoring systems, analysis tooling, and status dashboards to provide real-time visibility into key performance areas, and operational health.
  • Modernized fulfillment systems, reducing technical overhead costs, increasing shipment run rate, and improving operational workflow efficiency.
  • Mentored and supported team members through code reviews, technical planning, and skill development.
  • Partnered with Product, Design, and stakeholders to conceptualize, scope, and deliver tools, applications, and new features.
  • Designed both automated and user-driven processes to replace legacy manual workflows and outdated technical tooling.
  • Implemented team policies to improve tracking of effort, velocity, bug triage, and upgrade cycles for key dependencies.
  • Managed and optimized a suite of real-time and analytical queries that enabled greater visibility and oversight into business performance.
  • Traveled regularly nationwide to attend leadership strategy sessions, ensure compliance with technical standards, and gather firsthand feedback from end users.

Senior Software Engineer

Home Chef
Chicago, IL
07.2022 - 07.2023
  • Led technical initiatives to migrate relational database hosting platforms, reducing database overhead costs by 40%.
  • Collaborated with business analytics teams to implement logical replication and Change Data Capture (CDC) using Debezium connectors, enabling real-time data syncing to Snowflake for powering Looker explores and dashboards.
  • Served as the primary engineer on greenfield projects to modernize warehouse fulfillment systems, transitioning from paper-based workflows to fully digitized, automated solutions.
  • Oversaw major upgrades across Ruby on Rails monoliths and React codebases, including platform, language, and critical dependency updates.
  • Conducted comprehensive database optimization efforts, including query tuning, index audits, and health checks, to improve performance and reliability.
  • Promoted consistent documentation of architectural, analytical, and technical decisions to support long-term maintainability, and knowledge preservation.
  • Audited key technical system use, such as Sidekiq and automated test pipelines, resulting in improvements that lowered overhead and increased efficiency.

Software Engineer

Home Chef
Chicago, IL
06.2021 - 07.2022
  • Developed, maintained, and enhanced key features across multiple operational teams, contributing to critical business workflows.
  • Encouraged engineering best practices and positive communication through collaboration, empathetic and constructive code reviews, and team-wide ceremonies.
  • Delivered durable, well-tested, and maintainable code that addressed important business challenges in real-time software applications.

Software Engineer

Chowbus
Chicago, IL
06.2020 - 06.2021
  • Utilized a Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL tech stack within a containerized, multi-service environment, collaborating as part of a distributed team in a fast-growing company.
  • Contributed to engineering efforts to replace the authorization strategy for internal and external users across multiple services, engines, and applications.
  • Designed and developed RESTful APIs, adhering to JSON:API specifications.
  • Assisted in implementing a multi-tier caching strategy, leveraging Redis.
  • Served as the primary engineer for caching a high-traffic API endpoint, delivering critical real-time data; optimized performance by handling over six million requests daily through a Redis caching layer.
  • Leveraged APM tools like Datadog and New Relic to identify opportunities for API improvements, query optimization, and enhanced visibility into overall platform health.

Web Application Developer

LLT Group
Naperville, IL
10.2017 - 04.2020
  • Developed and maintained web applications using a tech stack that includes Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, and Heroku.
  • Collaborated with internal teams and clients to provide consultations, assist with project scoping, conduct workshops, and recommend timelines for new and ongoing projects.
  • Worked to accurately plan project scopes, timelines, and budgets through user stories, client discussions, and assessment of internal resources.

Education

Full Stack Web Developer Apprenticeship - Web Development

Bloc.io
07.2017

Bachelor of Science - Culinary Nutrition

Johnson & Wales University
Providence, RI

Skills

  • Application Languages: Ruby(Rails), JavaScript (React)
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, Snowflake; performance tuning and analysis with PgAnalyze
  • Caching & NoSQL: Redis, Dragonfly
  • Asynchronous Processing: Sidekiq, Pusher
  • Monitoring & Reliability: Scout, New Relic (APM); Sentry, Rollbar (Error Monitoring)
  • DevOps & Deployment: Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated and manual deployment workflows
  • Cloud Platforms: Heroku, AWS, Crunchy Data

Timeline

Senior Software Tech Lead

Home Chef
08.2023 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Home Chef
07.2022 - 07.2023

Software Engineer

Home Chef
06.2021 - 07.2022

Software Engineer

Chowbus
06.2020 - 06.2021

Web Application Developer

LLT Group
10.2017 - 04.2020

Full Stack Web Developer Apprenticeship - Web Development

Bloc.io

Bachelor of Science - Culinary Nutrition

Johnson & Wales University

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