# Kalob Porter

> Lead Software Engineer

Location: Greater Indianapolis, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kalob

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience, mostly in startups, with contributions at all product life-cycle stages from inception to maintenance. Works across the entire stack (Frontend, Backend, CI/CD, DevOps). Experience is mostly tied to full stack JS/TS (React/Node/Express) but has shipped code in Go, Python, Dart, Java, C#, and Ruby. Passion for mentoring & teaching junior engineers. Has management experience.

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ 120Water
Jan 2024 – Present | Zionsville, Indiana, United States
120Water's platform is a turnkey solution that makes drinking water and wastewater program management and compliance simple.

### Founder @ The Tattr Company
Jan 2022 – Present | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Decimal
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
At Decimal I was responsible for building the universal API to connect our frontend, accountant-facing, tools. The API featured a robust feature set including:
- Standard CRUD operations
- Blazing fast permissions system, with support for in-browser parsing via WASM
- An audit logging system
- Custom webhook support
- An event system to sync data across systems & fire event based webhooks
- Custom rolled authentication

In this role I also built several UI features, including the universal login/account management system.

I consistently delivered high quality, readable, code & architected huge swaths of the system from scratch.

### Software Engineering Team Lead @ Swarm Solutions
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
At Swarm Solutions I wrote & delivered full stack software for enterprise clients operating at massive scale, reaching hundreds of millions of end users every month.

As a team lead my roles & responsibilities include helping the team of senior engineers achieve their goals both personally & professionally via 1 on 1s & ensuring information flows upward to the senior leadership teams both within Swarm and within our client companies.

### Software Engineer @ DT Starts
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Indianapolis, Indiana
At DT Starts I cofounded 13 SaaS and software assisted companies.

Consistently delivered on hard deadlines, built foundations  for several codebases with technologies including but not limited to Node, React, Redux, Serverless, Express, and Restify. Focused on architecture and early decision making to build the foundations for a clean, manageable, and easily readable codebase. Switched contexts between multiple code bases in short amounts of time. Built reliable and secure SaaS products on hard deadlines.

### Software Engineering Intern @ DT Starts
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Began work on multiple startups with hard deadlines, working full time while in school full time. Offered a hand in building components, cleaning code, and writing tests for several companies. Expanded business understanding and architectural knowledge

### Software Engineering Intern @ DeveloperTown
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Indianapolis, Indiana
Built internal projects for use with external clients. Studied under seasoned senior developers, honed skills in JavaScript with Angular and React


## Education
### Applied Computer Science
Indiana University Indianapolis
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

### General Studies
Ivy Tech Community College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### High School Diploma
Decatur Township School for Excellence
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kalob-porter-21450b123

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Source: https://flows.cv/kalob
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kalob/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29