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About

I'm Kevin Shelley, a Software Engineering Manager based in the Greater Richmond area with 8+ years of experience building high-performing teams and delivering production-quality software at scale.

Currently, I lead engineering and QA at GOLO, LLC, where I focus on aligning technical execution with business goals — whether that means defining roadmaps, mentoring engineers through complex problems, or driving cross-functional collaboration across product, design, and stakeholders. A growing part of that work involves championing AI adoption across the team, identifying where emerging tools can accelerate delivery and sharpen how we build. I believe great engineering leadership is about creating the conditions for a team to do their best work, not just writing the best code.

Before GOLO, I worked at Honeywell on business aviation tooling, where I coordinated delivery across distributed teams and contributed to the rollout of customer-facing dashboard features used by aerospace clients worldwide.

I specialize in leading full-stack web teams — particularly in e-commerce and platform engineering — and I'm most energized by the intersection of people, process, and product: building teams that ship reliably, communicate clearly, and grow together.

Work

Experience

  1. Software Engineering Manager

    GOLO, LLC·Remote

    Apr 2021 — Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

    Lead the team behind GOLO.com — a Shopify direct-to-consumer storefront of 900+ pages. Joined as Lead Software Engineer; promoted to Engineering Manager.

    • Lead a team of 3 engineers and 1 QA on the GOLO.com e-commerce platform (900+ pages on Shopify).
    • Engineered a custom continuous-delivery pipeline that cut deployment time from 1 hour to 15 minutes.
    • Cut card time-to-live by 50% and drove 15% year-over-year revenue growth through platform and customer-portal improvements.
    • typescript
    • react
    • shopify
    • liquid
    • leadership
    • ecommerce

  2. Software Engineer — Business Aviation Forge Dashboard

    Honeywell·Phoenix, AZ

    Apr 2020 — Mar 2021 · 1 yr

    Built the engine-maintenance widget for Business Aviation's Forge dashboard, on a Redux + microservices stack secured by Kong API Gateway.

    • Developed the engine-maintenance widget with Redux-managed state for the Business Aviation dashboard used by maintenance teams.
    • Configured Kong API Gateway security across the microservices the widget consumed.
    • react
    • redux
    • microservices
    • api-gateway
    • frontend

  3. Systems Engineer — GoDirect Network

    Honeywell·Phoenix, AZ

    Jun 2019 — Apr 2020 · 11 mos

    ISP-data integration on the GoDirect Network team — Django, MySQL, Redis, and a mix of REST, GraphQL, and SOAP.

    • Integrated ISP data feeds into the GoDirect Network through Django + MySQL services.
    • Wrote consumers across REST, GraphQL, and SOAP endpoints; cached hot paths in Redis.
    • python
    • django
    • mysql
    • redis
    • api
    • backend

  4. Webmaster

    CodeDevils (Arizona State University)·Tempe, AZ

    Apr 2019 — May 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Led web development and engineering for CodeDevils, ASU's student software organization. Architected and maintained codedevils.org and led a 10-person team on a satellite imagery research tool built in partnership with ASU and Planet.com.

    • Built and maintained codedevils.org on Django + Postgres + Redis, with Slack API and CampusLabs integrations and JWT/SSO authentication.
    • Led a 10-developer team to build a satellite imagery tool with Planet.com analyzing volcanic eruption impact on vegetation — now used by active researchers.
    • Owned strategic decisions around the organization's web presence, tech stack, and stakeholder coordination.
    • python
    • django
    • postgres
    • redis
    • graphql
    • aws
    • javascript
    • leadership

  5. Customer Service Representative

    Honeywell·Phoenix, AZ

    Jun 2017 — Apr 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Customer-facing support role at Honeywell, with responsibilities spanning Salesforce administration and technical coordination.

    • Administered Salesforce CRM to manage and track customer interactions and support workflows.
    • Applied technical engineering knowledge to support customer needs in a fast-paced environment.
    • salesforce
    • leadership
    • customer-service

  6. Customer Service Manager

    TJ Maxx

    Nov 2013 — Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Managed customer service operations and front-end staff at TJ Maxx, overseeing day-to-day team performance, escalations, and sales floor coordination.

    • Managed a team of customer service associates, handling scheduling, performance, and day-to-day operations.
    • Owned escalation management, resolving complex customer issues and maintaining service standards.
    • Drove front-end sales performance through team coaching and process improvements.
    • leadership
    • people-management
    • customer-service
    • escalation-management
    • sales

Selected work

Projects

Honeywell BA Forge Dashboard

Aerospace fleet management dashboard for business aviation customers.

Software engineer (April 2020–March 2021) on Honeywell's Business Aviation Forge Dashboard. Built key features including an engine maintenance hours widget and supporting back-end microservices, while maintaining Redux state and contributing to security configuration behind a Kong API Gateway.

  • Engine maintenance hours widget with real-time tracking of aircraft locations and maintenance schedules.
  • Microservices authenticated behind a Kong API Gateway for centralized back-end security.
  • Successful v1 launch of the engine maintenance feature drove customer satisfaction and revenue growth.
  • react
  • typescript
  • nodejs
  • python
  • redux
  • sass
  • rest-apis
  • aws
  • distributed-systems

Smart MOOCs

Online-learning enhancements with a lecture-difficulty heat map.

Senior software engineer (May 2022–present) on a Next.js platform improving online learning. Built a heat-map visualization that surfaces which sections of a lecture students struggle with most.

  • Next.js front-end with custom data visualization of per-lecture difficulty.
  • Iterates on the underlying engagement model in lockstep with the visualization.
  • nextjs
  • react
  • typescript
  • dataviz

SRCA Inventory Portal

Real-time medical-supply tracking via QR codes.

Full-stack Django + Postgres application (April 2022–present) for tracking medical supplies. QR-coded items, real-time stock updates, and a Redis-backed job queue.

  • Django + Postgres backend with a Redis queue for real-time stock updates.
  • QR-code workflow lets field teams scan items in and out without touching a keyboard.
  • python
  • django
  • postgres
  • redis

pyCadence

Decorator-based task scheduling for Python.

Sole developer and maintainer of an open-source Python utility for automated task scheduling — built on decorators and threading.

  • Decorator API turns any function into a scheduled job.
  • Threading-based runtime with cancel and re-schedule semantics.
  • python
  • open-source
  • threading

GOLO.com Platform

900+ page Shopify storefront powering a direct-to-consumer brand.

Lead engineer on the production storefront for GOLO. Custom continuous-delivery pipeline, deep Salesforce and GA integration, and a sustained performance focus that has driven measurable revenue growth.

  • Custom CD pipeline cut deployment time from 1 hour to 15 minutes.
  • Performance and customer-portal improvements drove 15% year-over-year revenue growth.
  • shopify
  • liquid
  • react
  • salesforce

Stack

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Liquid

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Redux
  • RxJS
  • SASS

Backend

  • Django
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • SOAP

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis

Cloud & DevOps

  • Azure
  • Shopify
  • Salesforce
  • Heroku
  • Kong API Gateway
  • Bitbucket Pipelines

Study

Education

Arizona State University

B.S., Software Engineering

2014 — 2020

Focus on web and mobile application development and graphical user interfaces. Webmaster for the CodeDevils student organization.

Credentials

Certifications

Shopify Liquid Storefronts for Theme Developers

Shopify

Oct 2025

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Jul 2023

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React with React Router & Redux

Udemy

Jul 2023

TypeScript for Professionals

Udemy

Jul 2023

RxJS 7 and Observables

Udemy

Nov 2022

Salesforce Heroku

Udemy

Sep 2022

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What people say

Kevin has excellent architecting and coding skills. He's the backbone of the company's eCommerce operation.

Judd Franklin

GOLO, LLC