# Kevin "Turbo" Verre > Senior Software Engineer at Apple Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinturboverre * www.kevinverre.com * Currently at Apple. I currently live in Seattle, used to live in Silicon Valley. * I work as full-stack web engineer. Originally my strength was in backend server-side development. But now I do lots of frontend web programming, too. * I'm passionate about working on great products, making them better and easier to use. * Message me and I can tell you more about what I’ve worked on * I’m most experienced with Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript/JavaScript. * I can write server-side code in many languages including Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, and Bash scripts. * On the front end, I have a lot of experience with JavaScript and jQuery and HTML. I’ve also written a little some iOS code in Swift. I used to use C# a lot to make Windows applications. * I can quickly learn new languages and technologies. * I taught myself React and TypeScript on the job to add to my front-end abilities * I’m great at debugging, algorithms, data-structures, and other CS fundamentals. * I’m great at finding ways to improve the user-experience of software. * I work well with others. I’m great at working with people outside of engineering to come up with software requirements * I’m great at explaining things, teaching, and writing * I work best when I ask for feedback frequently * Sometimes the languages or frameworks I used in the past aren’t as popular anymore. But the concepts I learned are still applicable. * I like to build little programs or small websites that I can use myself or share with my friends * I like to write educational articles * Checkout my guide to User Experience and Product Design: www.whatithinksofar.com/userexperience * My Guide to managing code with Git : https://github.com/KevinVerre/kevins-guide-to-git ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2019 – Present | Cupertino, CA Building full stack web tools. Python, Django, jQuery, postgreSQL. React, Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB. ### Software Engineer @ Man Crates Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Mateo, CA Ruby on Rails server side code, some front end web ### Engineer (founding team) @ Stealth startup Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA I worked with some friends on two startups. Both used Ruby on Rails. One had an iOS app that I helped build in Xcode. One was more web-based. ### Full-Stack Software Engineer at Papaly.com @ Papaly Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA Worked at a small startup, Papaly. Wrote a lot of Ruby-on-Rails code, JavaScript and jQuery code. Papaly is a bookmarking tool that allows users to organize their collection of bookmarked websites into boards. Boards can be private, public, or collaborated on with a group. The company was a small startup. I was the first software engineer hired that wasn't part of the founding team. I built a lot of features for their products, fixed a lot of bugs, and also helped a lot with improving the product design. ### Software Engineer @ Simply Hired Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale CA Worked as part of a team of 25-30 engineers that supported a large job search engine website that allowed many users to search through many job postings. Wrote a lot of server side code that processed job data from many different sources of job data in order for that data to be added to the production database that was indexed for the search engine. Also worked on internal tools that the engineering team and client services team used to manage the data that was collected. Worked on their Java code that customized the Lucene/Solr index of the jobs database. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Electronic Arts Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Orlando, Florida Area Worked on a networked system of internal tools used for game development. Wrote C# code for a Windows application. ### Software Intern @ M&S Technologies Inc. Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Niles, IL Worked on a software application used by eye doctors (optometrists and ophthalmologists). Added features, bugfixes, and user experience enhancements. Most of the code I wrote was in C# for Windows. www.mstech-eyes.com is the website for the product that I worked on. ### Research Assistant @ Orchid Research Group Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Urbana, IL Worked on a research project related to software used by designers (product designers, artists, architects, etc) to collect and store images and inspiration. It was sort of like Pinterest before Pinterest was a thing. Wrote code in ActionScript. Helped interview potential users. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### Completed 3 month mentorship program in Full-stack development using Ruby on Rails Bloc.io Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ### Maine South High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinverre - Website: https://www.kevinverre.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinturboverre JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinturboverre/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22