# Kevin Kotosky > Principal Front End Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinkotosky ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Atlassian Jan 2024 – Present ### Engineering Manager @ Stavvy Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Manager of a team of nine full-stack engineers driving innovation and maintenance of Stavvy's Remote Online Notarization product. A video meeting experience where notary’s verify signers identities and they together sign legal documents. • Designed individualized career development plans for each engineer tailored to their interests and provided growth opportunities for them to achieve their goals. • Facilitated collaboration with international contractors, fostering strong relationships to increase the team's effectiveness. • Coordinated with leadership and product teams to refine our roadmap to align with company goals and KRs. • Leading initiatives to replace our third party video conferencing provider Twilio. • Regularly met with the customer support team to identify areas of customer strain and how engineering could improve the customer journey. • Collaborated with engineers to identify critical areas of technical debt and prioritized the changes within the roadmap in coordination with the product team. ### Staff Front End Engineer @ Stavvy Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 • Architected with other staff FE and BE engineers a new user management and permissioning system designed to be backwards compatible and future facing • Led the product development and engineering lifecycle of IPEN, a tablet based document signing experience using a modern technology stack including, React, Typescript and React Query. • Architected application testing strategies, leading to 10x unit tests, 10x increase in coverage and strategic E2E testing using Jest and React Testing Library. • Authored guides for testing patterns to streamline the process of writing tests. • Facilitated simultaneous development of a new FE and BE platform, by configuring a locally run Express server that emulates the intended BE api. • Published REST api standards to maintain a consistent api interface. • Collaborated with leadership to refine Stavvy’s product vision and adjust the engineering roadmap. • Mentored and managed FE, BE and Design teams through product life cycles. ### Senior Front End Engineer @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts • Lead front-end developer for Akamai’s foremost customer facing configuration application, Property Manager, an application that enabled customers to manager their complex internet traffic in an intuitive way. • Built new customer portal home page using a new design system. • Designed and implemented multiple applications from the ground up in both Angular and AngularJS. • Led end of life process for Akamai's previous configuration application. • Gathered user requirements for applications and feature enhancements. • Coordinated interdepartmental efforts to ensure a consistent user experience. • Added DevOps supporting features to web applications. • Managed application development lifecycles in parallel. • Aided in drafting component library contribution guidelines. • Addressed high priority service incidents. ### Software Engineer (Co-op) / Front End Engineer (Co-op) @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA Front End Engineer • Built reusable front end web components to be used across multiple web applications. • Maintained entire testing infrastructure for the reusable components. • Authored guides ensuring testing framework and techniques could be replicated. Software Engineer • Led the design process of a user feedback system. • Extended an internal metadata system allowing the addition of new user capabilities. • Verified new user capabilities would affect client's websites as expected. ### Software Developer (Co-Op) @ Novartis Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, Massachusetts • Implemented and de-bugged features for a web application. • Designed integration and regression tests for pre-existing and new code. • Participated in design cycle sprints increasing overall productivity. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ### Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ### High School Diploma Westborough High School Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevin-kotosky-5770105b --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinkotosky JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinkotosky/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23