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Kevin ShelleySenior Frontend Engineer & E-Commerce Lead

Product teams hiring a senior frontend / e-commerce UI lead.

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

About

Senior frontend engineer focused on production e-commerce UIs and the build/CD systems that ship them. Comfortable in React, Next.js, and Shopify-flavored Liquid, with a track record of cutting deploy times and growing revenue through performance + UX work.

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

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

Stack

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Liquid

Frontend

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

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