# Kyle Welton > Senior Software Engineer | Front-End & Full-Stack Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylewelton Software Engineer with extensive experience building modern, innovative, and user-friendly products and web applications by working cross-collaboratively across teams to support the entire application development lifecycle. Dynamic problem solver skilled in front-end design and full-stack development able to bridge the gap between software design and implementation. Dedicated professional adept at writing code and communicating ideas with a broad stakeholder audience to secure buy-in and satisfaction. Areas of Expertise: Software Engineering Front-End & Full-Stack Stakeholder Engagement CI/CD Pipelines Team Coordination JavaScript Programming Component Libraries Requirements Gathering User Experience (UX) ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Abbott Jan 2024 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States ### Software Engineer @ Daily Harvest Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Collaborated with designers and stakeholders within an Agile environment, effectively participating in daily stand-up meetings, performing story estimation, and completing tickets off a Scrum board to develop test-driven code built in React, Redux, Typescript, SCSS, and Python. Transformed Figma designs into numerous new responsive components within a new reusable and extensible component library. Engaged with cross-functional teams across design, business, and product to gather documentation and transform requirements into functional components. ### Software Engineer @ LightPoint Financial Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States Performed test-driven development (TDD) of a new Angular, TypeScript, and SCSS application by creating numerous unique components for an internal big dataset review and submission application. Contributed to a distributed front-end component library that improved reusability and UX across teams. Completed build-outs from requirements documents, working in an Agile sprint-based workflow system to ensure features for end-users allowed for seamless input, review, and submission of financial data. ### Software Developer @ Eikos Partners Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States Worked as a technical consultant responsible for multiple projects, including one large deployment by performing front-end test-driven development (TDD) of more than 100 UI components for an Angular, TypeScript, and SCSS workflow. Employed strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with front-end and back-end teams to develop new RESTful API-driven Angular and Vue component libraries. ### UX Designer @ NextCapital Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Chicago, Illinois, United States Created designs and prototypes for a growing library of custom UI components used in product initiatives across the company. Performed detailed requirements gathering, wireframe production, rapid web component prototyping, and technical specifications. Designed and rapid-prototyped components in React, HTML, and SCSS for a public-facing finance tracking web application. Produced over 100 specification documents and wireframes, greatly increasing accuracy and consistency of UI features. Defined UX, user flows, and functional requirements for both internal and client-customized versions of UI components. ### Technical Business Analyst @ LevelSet Solutions Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Royal Oak, MI Provided both design insight and technical specifications throughout the solution process. Primarily focused on requirements gathering, web application analysis, wireframe and interface design, usability analysis, and functional specifications. Designed and developed HTML and CSS email marketing campaign templates and custom web-based user survey forms. Worked within front end team to provide design guidelines, user stories, and implement HTML and CSS software features. Produced over 200 UI wireframes for development and inclusion in over 15 completed web and mobile applications. ### Application Programming Specialist @ IBM Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Lansing, Michigan, United States Contributed to on-site projects as an application programming specialist. Roles with clients required stakeholder requirements gathering, code maintenance, and solution design specification. Implemented back end code updates for server upgrade and deployment used within a municipal energy utilities provider. Created SQL scripts for verification of over 100 financial reports, greatly increasing data accuracy and acceptance rates. Gathered user requirements and defined design specifications of financial reports, vastly improving consistent look-and-feel for end users. ### Co-Founder, Application Developer @ Algopia, LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States As co-founder of a FinTech startup, provided extensive design, planning, and implementation of core web application features. Defined website architecture and individual page layouts for a new web-based financial analysis application. Coded basic web app navigation and produced page content for public-facing pages using HTML and JavaScript. Automated database population through the creation of PHP and Python libraries for Yahoo! Finance API communication. Scripted Cron job schedulers, and deployed them to AWS for nightly execution of file maintenance tasks. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Informatics University of Michigan Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 ### Computer Software Engineering Flatiron School Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kylewelton --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylewelton JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylewelton/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22