Kalyn has been working to enhance user experience for both fun and profit for 8 years. She is experienced in both back-end and front-end web development—primarily React, Typescript, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Java—as well as database management, with a personal focus on accessibility and mentoring hobbyist programmers...

Experience

2021 — 2025PlayVSStaff Software Engineer

2021 — 2025

Built chat system with Twilio and created internal tools to test performance and scalability while minimizing costs.

Automated critical business needs, reducing onboarding time for new esports by 70%.

2020 — 2021StockXSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2021

Mentored junior engineers and collaborated to create a standard code style

Monitored DataDog logs and alerts to detect brute-force attacks and

report them to the prevention team

Guided grooming sessions and the allocation of Agile points to new tasks

Pioneered the Information Security Team in creating higher security

protocols and procedures for specific security assistance

2017 — 2020RTS LabsSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2020

4951 Lake Brook Dr #225, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Pioneered custom React web application for Advance Auto Parts, used daily in hundreds of stores across both English and Spanish

Interfaced with clients to present demos and roadmaps and to establish specific requirements

Front-end React/JavaScript developer in a fast-paced and cutting-edge environment

2016 — 2017Perfect CommerceSoftware Engineer

2016 — 2017

1 Compass Way, Newport News, Virginia

Spearheaded full-stack rewrite of Java web app, updating the back-end to use Service-Oriented Architecture and the front-end to use Angular 4

Wrote library of UI components in Angular for use across 3+ company products

2015 — 2015Perfect CommerceSoftware Developer

2015 — 2015

Newport News, VA

Assisted in full-stack rewrite of over 80% of the code to make legacy C#/JavaScript web app cross-browser compatible

Pioneered a UX overhaul and introduced a modern UI design to replace the old interface, updating code on over 100 pages

Education

2012 — 2016

William & Mary

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

2012 — 2016