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Kevin ShelleyBackend Engineer — Python, Django, API Integration

Platform / data teams hiring a Python-and-friends backend engineer.

Greater Richmond Region·kevin.shelley@pm.me
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Summary

About

Backend engineer with deep experience integrating untidy upstream data — ISP feeds, e-commerce events, medical inventory — into clean APIs and persistent stores. Comfortable across REST, GraphQL, and SOAP, with Django, Postgres, and Redis as the day-job stack.

Work

Experience

  1. 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

  2. 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

Selected work

Projects

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

Stack

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Liquid

Backend

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

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis

Cloud & DevOps

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

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