# Kyle Copeland

> Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kylecopeland

I have over 8 years of experience writing platform web services for entertainment, fashion, finance and healthcare companies. I've worked on problems related to Content Management Systems, Forums, Esports, Localization, E-Commerce, Healthcare, and Business Creation. I've been involved in enterprise platforms that handled 3k-5k requests per second across the globe in the US, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia secured by multi-tenant permission systems. 

I would break up my experience as 50-60% backend, 20-30% frontend, and 10% infrastructure. I enjoy helping out where is needed and take responsibility for the problems I'm entrusted with solving. I don't have all the answers and look for guidance and feedback from my peers.

Integrity is important to me--that we are building solutions that map to business needs and serve customer problems. I'm interested in spaces where people feel secure and safe to encourage one another to be their best selves. I aim to write code that is hospitable to others and view software development as a craft just like carpentry, coffee making, or raising children.

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer @ Betterment
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Writing backend services for the Trading team

### Senior Back-End Engineer, Platform & Data @ Redesign Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
- Spun up the companies first backend Java services
- Hired and onboarded our second backend engineer
- Wrote developer documentation around our API standards, architecture decision records (ADRS), API resource request/response payloads through Spring REST Docs, and OpenAPI Definition 
- Integrated our authentication system with Google OIDC and wrote an ABAC authorization system through Spring Security
- Wrote Java services to connect to AWS SES, AWS Lambda, AWS S3, Google Drive, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Jira Cloud
- Wrote CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to run linting, type checking, unit tests, code coverage reports, and deployments to ECS
- Mentored QA engineer in writing maintainable code for our Playwright E2E suite for our API and UI

### Senior Software Engineer, Retail @ Warby Parker
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
Accomplishments
- Supported Warby Parker's point of sales (POS) system and doctor's portal used across 150+ stores in the US and Canada
- Led a project to create a Frame Style Assistant application that helps retail employees find the perfect frame for each customer
- Facilitated discussions on tooling, code style, and deployment across our 10 frontend applications
- Partnered with design to create a design system for our retail applications and component library to centralize our code and gain consistency across our applications
- Created documentation to onboard new employees onto our eco-system
- Wrote a migration plan to replace all legacy APIs with Warby's new unified API suite

Technologies used:
- Javascript: React, Redux, Typescript, Emotion, Testing Library, Storybook
- Python: Tornado, SQLAlchemy
- Databases: PostgresSQL
- Infrastructure: CircleCI, AWS

Extra:
- Gave talks on module resolution, Node's debugger, and Typescript at our Frontend Guild
- Ran a book club on The Phoenix Project to help our team talk about process
- Participated in Inclusion in Tech activities
- Created a "Frame quiz" to help employees learn all of Warby Parker's frame names

### Senior Software Engineer, Battle.net & Online Products @ Blizzard Entertainment
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Irvine, California
Technologies used:
- Java: Spring, Maven, Hibernate, Project Reactor
- Javascript: Typescript, React, Redux, Node
- Databases: Oracle, Cassandra 
- Infrastructure: Jenkins, AWS, New Relic, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Solr

Extra:
- Co-led a Design System working group to unify our internal applications and speed up development
- Mentored a manual QA member in programming and resulted in a 6 month automation effort
- Mentored a designer in frontend development and resulted in her publishing production code
- Participated in a book club around the book Inspired by Marty Cagen to improve product development in our org
- Ran a Scrum Working Group for our department
- Ran #RandomCoffees to increase collaboration in our department
- Participated in Girls Who Code, Code.org, OC Grip and other volunteer programs

### Lecturer @ UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Orange County, California Area
- Co-teach upper division ICS 161 "Game Engines Lab" course with Collin Helstien.
- Develop 10 week coursework and lectures

### Peer Academic Advisor @ UC Irvine
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Information and Computer Science Department
- Advise students on class scheduling, campus resources, and degree requirements
- Maintain a vast knowledge of campus resources and policies
- Answer emails and attending bi-weekly meetings
- Give presentations during summer orientations

### Programming Intern @ Broadview Mortgage Corporation - Corporate
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
- Work on web service (SOAP/C#) projects, web application projects (Node.js, JQuery, MSSQL, MongoDB, Bootstrap), excel(VBA) projects, and database(MSSQL) projects, 
- Communicate with management about software specifications, progress, and concerns for projects
- Learn and adapt to numerous programming languages and mortgage jargon

### Shift Lead @ Regal Entertainment Group
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Garden Grove, CA
- In charge of groups of employees in all areas of the movie theater, training of new employees, solving customer service issues, and maintaining a healthy work environment.
- Employee of the month June 2011, promoted to Shift Lead in Nov 2011.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science & Engineering w/ Track in Artificial Intelligence
UC Irvine


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-copeland-668144a7
- Portfolio: https://goodnessandjoy.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/kyle-copeland

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Last updated: 2026-03-31