Front-End Engineer II

Coworker
Amazon
Kelly is a phenomenal FEE. Her super powers are her fearlessness and work speed. Very early on she made significant improvements to developer quality of life in the team code base while delivering features and fixing bugs. She churns out high quality work at an amazing pace. These traits and her CX/UX biased view lead to exciting potential.
Coworker
Amazon
Kelly drives the team to think big and find ways to follow coding standards and best practices at all times. She is a great team player, easy to approach and has good problem solving skills. She proactively digs into code and fixes areas that haven't been implemented as per best practices.
Staff Engineer
Tesla

I got to "mentor" Kelly into the rather complex stack for Tesla Insurance. It felt like what a race car driver must feel when driving a very very fast race car. She started improving the variables names, the architecture, the logic, everything she touched got better. Kelly is an outstanding colleague, engineer and person. Thanks to her, after 3 years of building Tesla Insurance, I was able to move to other projects, as she was able to cover for my contribution.

Kelly is reliable, very smart, courageous and she rocks. Probably one of the most talented UI dev I had the privilege to help hiring and mentoring.

Manager
Google
My team and I thoroughly enjoyed working with Kelly, she proved herself to be highly intelligent, a very fast learner and capable of almost any task we threw at her. Kelly is extremely technical and always delivers on time. Kelly ramped up to be effective in this highly competitive environment... I highly encourage you hire Kelly, she has immense potential and a proven track record of excelling at one of the most successful companies in the world.

Skills

Frontend Development Fullstack Development JavaScript Typescript React Web & Native Node.js Next.js Python Django PostgreSQL RESTful APIs AWS Semantic HTML Cookies CSS Sass A11y Unit Testing Telemetry CI/CD Clean Code Best Practices UX Design Technical Design Documents Management Moving Fast without Breaking Things!
September 2022 - Present

Front End Engineer II

Amazon (Prime Video)
  • Built UIs for Explore experiences on Prime Video titles.
  • Took initiative to evaluate, document, and correct accessibility gaps in existing features.
  • Provided design requirements for Music feature in lieu of PM availability.
  • Pivoted to backend for a year to develop a suite of microservices automating social media ad campaigns.
  • Wrote designs docs and provided guidance on other team members' design docs.
  • Owned development of API automating retrieval of existing assets and generation of decorated assets given title id, locale, and other optional parameters.
  • Mentored new junior team members.
  • Organized book club: Clean Code, Designing Distributed Systems, Designing Data-Intensive Applications
May 2022 - September 2022

Senior Software Development Engineer

Tesla
  • Worked with the Tesla Insurance team to maintain and expand the in-house web application for insurance agents and the mobile app self-serve insurance experience for customers.
October 2021 - April 2022

Senior Front End Engineer

UnitedHealth Group
  • Built new form experiences with dynamic API-driven content and original, reusable React + Typescript components such as a progress tracker and form fields with error management.
  • Recognized opportunities for, and contributed to, improvement in mobile experience, accessibility compliance, and codebase maintainability.
March 2020 - September 2021

Senior Design Technologist

E*TRADE (Contract via InRhythm)
  • Contributed to React, styles, and documentation repos for internal design system.
September 2016 - December 2019

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Sentience Institute
  • Conducted fundraising and all admin for the charity.
  • Hired staff with Research Director.
  • Edited staff research.
  • Developed and maintained website.
  • Presented research findings at conferences, such as "Tech vs social change for animals" (Effective Altruism Global, SF 2018).
September 2015 - September 2016

UX Engineer

Google (Contract via Adecco)
  • Built prototypes and prototyping tools for Search, Images, and Maps UX.

App Academy Projects

2015
SuperSociety

Meetup for Superheroes

10-day full-stack capstone SPA project, built with Ruby, Rails, Backbone.js, PostgreSQL, JS, HTML, and CSS.

Users can create, update, and delete their account; log in; view other account profiles; create groups and events, and update and delete groups and events they manage; view, subscribe to and unsubscribe from groups; view, join and leave events; view subscribed groups and upcoming events in a personal dashboard; search for groups by name; and search for events by title and location.

Original UI design with InDesign mocks; responsive; substantial custom CSS built on top of Bootstrap base; "delightful" UX effects; infinite scrolling; modal forms; dynamic/live-updating data; overrides Backbone's parse methods to retrieve associated models with custom queries; sensitive search functionality listens for searchbar keydown and responds with matching results automatically.

PixelPipes

Logic Puzzle Game

jQuery calculations responsively resize the board. Assesses pipe connections by recursively checking adjacent positions for matching tiles.

RailsLite

MVC Framework Based on Rails

Enables creation of controllers, renders templates, stores session cookies, and parses params. Instantiates a router to match routes with regular expressions and invoke the requested action.

Work & Education

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  • 2022-Present
    Front End Engineer II
    Amazon (Prime Video)
  • 2022
    Senior Software Development Engineer
    Tesla
  • 2021-2022
    Senior Front End Engineer
    UnitedHealth Group
  • 2020-2021
    Senior Design Technologist
    E*TRADE
  • 2016-2020
    Co-Founder & Executive Director
    Sentience Institute
  • 2015-2016
    UX Engineer
    Google
  • 2015
    Student
    App Academy Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp
  • 2014
    Caregiver
    Animal Place
  • Graduated 2013
    HBA Art History
    University of Toronto