# Kelsey Niederer > Software Engineer Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kelseyniederer πŸ”Ή Full-Stack Engineer | Frontend Specialist | UX Advocate | Certified Yoga Teacher πŸ”Ή Hi, I'm Kelsey :) A software engineer with a strong focus on user experience, frontend development, and building intuitive, accessible applications. My expertise lies in Angular and React, where I’m highly comfortable designing, developing, and optimizing modern web applications. Beyond frontend, I have experience working with Java and Python, allowing me to contribute effectively across the stack. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ FireMon Jan 2023 – Present 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 Pioneered the integration of AG Charts, replacing outdated AngularJS charts with a modern and maintainable solution.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
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 ### Developer @ happyMedium Jan 2023 – Jan 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 ### Full Stack Engineer @ Balto Jan 2021 – Jan 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 ### Engineering Apprentice @ Balto Jan 2021 – Jan 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 ### Tech Leadership Fellow @ LaunchCode Jan 2021 – Jan 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. ### STEM Teacher @ Bricks 4 Kidz Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | St Louis, Missouri, United States At Bricks4Kidz I lead workshops and classes to children ages 6-12 teaching concepts of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics using LEGOs. ### IT Coordinator @ Yoga Buzz Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 As the I.T. Coordinator I am the point of contact for the technical needs of Yoga Buzz. My main responsibility is designing and maintaining the Yoga Buzz website, as well as a couple smaller sites used by Yoga Buzz affiliates. ### Mathematics Tutor @ Unknown Jan 2011 – Jan 2021 | St Louis, Missouri, United States Tutoring students in math courses such as Algebra I & II, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, College Algebra, Statistics, ACT/SAT prep, and general mathematics. ## Education ### Computer Software Engineering LaunchCode Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Mathematics Teacher Education University of Missouri-Saint Louis Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### Mathematics Teacher Education University of Missouri-Columbia Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kelsey-niederer --- Source: https://flows.cv/kelseyniederer JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kelseyniederer/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29