👋 Hey there! I'm Kurt, a front-end focused software engineer. I have a passion for building things, solving problems, lending a helping hand, writing tests, and delivering accessible experiences to the end-user.
Experience
Senior Front-End Engineer | Coterie Insurance
Currently executing on a product team building and maintaining modernized insurance applications for policyholders and independent agents, using frameworks and languages like Next, React, Redux/React Query, and TypeScript.
Senior Front-End Engineer | Help Scout
Executed on a product team focused on migrating the flagship Inbox product at Help Scout from a Marionette/Backbone front-end to a more modern front-end using React, Redux, and TypeScript.
Drove user adoption by delivering key features to the flagship Inbox product including features like custom views, merging customers, composer enhancements etc.
Lead/Senior Front-End Engineer | Coterie Insurance
Executed on a product team building and maintaining modernized insurance applications for policyholders and independent agents, using frameworks and languages like Next, React, Redux/React Query, and TypeScript.
Enhanced the front-end ecosystem by implementing scalable front-end architecture, introducing a UI component library, documentation around coding best practices and principles, and advocating for a culture of writing and maintaining tests.
Mentored and managed up to 8 front-end developers. This involved helping coach engineers in their careers, teaching new software concepts, and pairing with engineers on daily development work.
Collaborated with a design team, performed on a scrum/agile team, and helped enhance the team scrum process (received Scrum Master 1 certification).
Software Developer | Launch Scout (previously Gaslight)
Performed as a consultant for Kroger technology and helped manage large scale React, Redux, and TypeScript applications streamlining the product and search experiences.
Executed on a scrum team working with product and designs teams to deliver key features to end users in a meaningful and efficient way.
Helped mentor other engineers on the team by pairing with engineers and introducing new front-end libraries, like React testing library, to improve the overall developer experience.
Worked and collaborated with large tech departments at Kroger like API, SEO, Design teams to execute on feature work.
Front-End Developer | Streamlined Studio
Performed as a consultant building and supporting various front-end applications with companies ranging from P&G to small non-profit organizations.
Built and maintained a software as a service solution using React, Apollo, GraphQL, Primsa framework, and other server-side technologies.
Acted as the lead front-end engineer architecting front-end applications, feature work and working with clients to deliver value to their end users.
Leveraged various third-party API’s, like SharePoint and Stripe, to create rich user experiences.
Introduced new technologies/software architecture technologies to team like: GraphQL, Styled Components (CSS in JS), functional programming techniques, CI, Webpack.
Web Developer | NIOSH
Helped implement and manage a CMS from a previous static file directory flow.
Played a key role on a team that architected and supported a 50,000+ page website.
Worked with internal research teams and clients to build and support various websites.
Led and participated in daily standup meetings within the web department.
Helped develop and design the NIOSH pocket guide to chemical hazards web application using AngularJS.