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Kevin ShelleySoftware Engineering Manager — Full-Stack Web

Engineering organizations hiring a hands-on manager for a full-stack web team.

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

About

Engineering manager leading a small team that ships a high-traffic Shopify storefront. Hands-on with the codebase, the deploy pipeline, and the metrics that matter — and the person teammates come to when something needs designing or debugging end-to-end.

Work

Experience

  1. Software Engineering Manager

    GOLO, LLC·Remote

    Apr 2021Present · 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 2020Mar 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 2019Apr 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

Selected work

Projects

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

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

Stack

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Liquid

Frontend

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

Backend

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

Cloud & DevOps

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

Study

Education

Arizona State University

B.S., Software Engineering

20142020

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