🔹 Full-Stack Engineer | Frontend Specialist | UX Advocate | Certified Yoga Teacher 🔹 Hi, I'm Kelsey :) A software engineer with a strong focus on user experience, frontend development, and building intuitive, accessible applications.
2023 — Now
At FireMon, I contribute to two teams, each with a unique focus on improving our product’s frontend experience and modernizing our codebase:
Policy Analysis & Change Team
Sole frontend developer responsible for implementing new features and enhancements, including bringing in Vendor Tags to policies and allowing our system to handle FQDNs as sources or destinations.
Played a significant role in the Ticket Revert feature, allowing users to undo change tickets as a crisis measure.
Mentor new hires, helping them navigate our complex frontend and serving as the primary point of contact for all frontend-related issues.
WebUI Team
Part of the core team modernizing our AngularJS codebase to Angular, leading early brainstorming sessions that shaped our upgrade strategy.
Pioneered the integration of AG Charts, replacing outdated AngularJS charts with a modern and maintainable solution.
Established frontend code standards across the organization, improving consistency and maintainability.
Actively involved in Cypress automated testing, ensuring a stable and reliable UI.
Focus on User Experience & Accessibility
Advocate for a seamless and visually refined UI, collaborating closely with designers to ensure no <div> goes unnoticed.
Recognized for consistently raising UI/UX questions and improvements, ensuring alignment with design standards.
Building Team Culture & Connection
Lead team de-distancing initiatives, fostering stronger connections in a remote environment.
Organize fun Slack "Question of the Day" discussions, encouraging engagement across teams.
Coordinate team happy hours and social events, creating opportunities for casual connection beyond work.
Praised by cross-functional teams for fast turnarounds and dedication to high-quality frontend solutions.
Skills: Angular, TypeScript, AG Charts, Cypress, JavaScript, UI/UX, Frontend Development, Automated Testing, Mentorship, Team Culture, Remote Collaboration
2023 — 2023
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Anheuser Busch Excellence Website - Lead Developer
Rebuilt ABI Excellence website for business units all over the world to track their sales stats and compete for a prize vacation
Solved a difficult client request to eliminate horizontal scroll on a 20 column table by introducing and implementing a tab/multi-select table design, so the user can choose the columns they want to see.
Optimized website to be responsive for mobile devices by adding collapsing CSS animations to table headers, resizing images, optimizing font sizes, and restructuring the navigation menu.
Implemented advanced CSS animations including scroll shadow, bug-free automatic carousels, 3D flip cards, bobbles, grab-to-scroll, and smooth navigation menu transitions.
Tools used: Angular, Typescript, Sass
Internal Project - Getting Photo Locations
Get Photo Location - Lead Developer
Developed a Python script that automatically finds and injects latitude and longitude coordinates into the metadata of photos. The goal of this project was to see where photos were taken while flying in a helicopter with a satellite logging its location, date, and time.
Automated this script to run as images are added by utilizing Watchdog to look for changes in the directory
Tools used: Python, ExifTool library, pynmea2 Library, Watchdog
2021 — 2022
Balto Gamification
My team delivered Balto Gamification, a brand new feature designed to improve the call center agent experience which was completed in 3 months and has awarded about 20,000 badges to agents and scores 1 Million messages per day
Raised the standard of demos in sprint reviews with cinematic demo videos that got the entire organization hyped about the product
Found and prevented a critical service outage with a load test I wrote and performed using Locust, AWS, and DataDog
RTQA (Real-Time QA)
Co-championed a highly requested QA Exports feature that no one wanted to work on due to the complexity of the queries
Led the design and UX overhaul of Leaderboard Agent Experience
HackPack
Helped organize #hack-pack - a group of 35 non-engineers who want to learn to code
DEI Board Member
Worked with HR to create a DEI Grievance Procedure impacting the entire organization
Co-Championed organizing a DAP assessment
2021 — 2021
Deepening knowledge of ecosystem, tools, and libraries used at Balto such as React, Docker, Redis, and Redux
Independently implementing and deploying stories and features
Building reusable components with React
Created and customized a 'Win Prediction' meter with Semantic UI for Thanksgiving Hack-a-thon
Updated designs of Balto Real-Time QA scorecards
2021 — 2021
St Louis, Missouri, United States
LaunchCode Tech Leadership Fellows guide a group of students as their principal education and support point of contact throughout LaunchCode programs.
Education
2020 — 2020
LaunchCode
Computer Software Engineering
2020 — 2020
2013 — 2015
University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Mathematics Teacher Education
2013 — 2015
2012 — 2013
University of Missouri-Columbia
Mathematics Teacher Education
2012 — 2013