# Xavier K.

> Software Engineer @ Bonusly

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xavierk

I'm a software engineer at GitHub, based in Washington, D.C., currently seeking a remote full-time software engineering position. I have 3+ years of professional experience in Ruby/Ruby on Rails with additional experience in Go, and Python. My ideal environment is one that fosters collaboration, enabling continued career growth, and is characterized by a positive team and company culture that encourages innovation for customer benefit.

During my tenure at GitHub, I witnessed numerous product launches and paradigm shifts as a full stack engineer. Working in a cross-domain team like billing provided me with numerous opportunities to support well-known industry products and services. I have contributed to notable projects such as GitHub Copilot, Codespaces, and Actions. Additionally, I've had the chance to work on and contribute to many APIs, managing the billing for the usage that our customers accrue for these services.

I'm a proud computer science graduate of Virginia State University. Additionally, I proudly serve as the alumni representative on the board of The HBCU Promise Inc., a non-profit dedicated to providing pathways for African American enrollment at HBCUs.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Bonusly
Jan 2024 – Present

### HBCU Promise Scholar Graduate @ The HBCU Promise
Jan 2020 – Present
I proudly serve as the alumni representative on the board of The HBCU Promise Inc., a non-profit dedicated to providing pathways for African American enrollment at HBCUs.

### Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Working as a full-stack engineer on the Billing platform that supports our services at GitHub. 

- Shipped a manual payment solution ahead of new federal mandates by the Reserve Bank of India that gave back ~ $1m in revenue to GitHub from affected customers.
- Implemented many of our user facing metered billing pages for products and subsequent APIs as we transitioned to our new Billing Platform (vNext) which is a service built in Go with a backend in CosmosDB.
- Shipped critical customer impacting work for our Copilot Product general audience launch. Developed integral solutions for our Subscription API. https://github.com/features/copilot/
- Maintenance and development of our new Billing API and Metered Usage Service Architecture.
- Day to day work that improves the teams and users that rely on our billing system and products.
- Held Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging interviews for general GitHub hiring.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
App Center Platform - CoreUX team
-Successfully shipped the platform's first working dark-mode theme using React and Typescript, which was the most popular request for users at the time.
-Shipped many accessibility fixes to ensure the platform and dark-mode were compliant with WCAG standards.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Virginia State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Worked under a professor and Microsoft engineers with an established student squad on a project that involves the Skype Bot framework. This project spanned two semesters long.
- Created the 'FriendBot' which gives Skype users an additional level of networking. It allows users to find each other based on similar information shared with the bot like nationality, education, and occupation.
The bot is currently deployed on Azure.

### Software Development Intern @ Lockheed Martin
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Herndon, Virginia
CybOrg team researched platforms that utilize bot applications for implementing communication interoperability. 
- Developed a proof of concept that allows for communication between Slack and the MSFT Bot Framework Emulator.
- Presented a means to increase interoperability and integration with newer technology and existing legacy systems.
- Held a secret security clearance.

### Research Intern @ Virginia State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Richmond, Virginia Area
I served as a research intern approved by the Virginia State University Undergraduate Research Foundation working in our engineering building directed under Dr. Zhenhua Wu. The purpose of my internship was to enable MTConnect on our manufacturing machine the Haas Lathe. MTConnect consists of an adapter and an agent programmed in C# and C++ respectively. My job was to utilize provided MTConnect adapter framework and use C# to enable it on the Haas. MTConnect allows for standardization of machine data using XML and allows for easier data analysis.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Virginia State University

### The Delta Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xkel98

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Last updated: 2026-04-05