Lead developer on the 3-person Access Networks team, developing a whole new portal experience for our installer partners. It&#8217;s a Rails 7 API backend with a React with TypeScript front end. It integrates with Acumatica, ConnectWise, Ruckus VirtualSmartZone, and more external services to provide an easy, powerful interface for managing custom private networks.
I am responsible for making larger architectural decisions, along with teaching and mentoring the other two developers, getting them up to speed with both Rails and React as we go.
The new Services Portal launched early 2025, and in the first 8 months, gross margin increased 10% simply by finally being able to charge for things that weren&#8217;t possible to even track in the old portal.

Software Engineer

A passion project I&#8217;ve been working on since 2008 to make managing my large collection of audience/unofficial recordings easier. Bootleg Database takes the ideas behind Setlist.fm (concert setlists and statistics) and Discogs (managing music collections) and combines them to create a site that allows users to keep track of performances attended and unofficial recordings collected. Users can review recordings and performances, providing scores and written content for each. There is a wealth of statistical information displayed as text and charts, for those who are interested.

Bootleg Database

Professional software engineer in the greater Denver metro area

Kyle Kerley

My own company for doing contract and freelance web development projects.

Owner, CEO, full-stack engineer

My first company. After nearly a decade of agency work across a number of industries, I started my own shop to better control the trajectory of my career. I freelanced while still holding full-time jobs at other companies for the first two years, going full-time as an independent contractor starting in 2019. Notable clients included:
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<li><a class="link-blues" href="https://www.janushenderson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Janus Henderson Investors</a></li>
<li><a class="link-blues" href="https://www.shorewest.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shorewest, REALTORS</a></li>
<li><a class="link-blues" href="https://www.k16solutions.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">K16 Solutions</a></li>
<li><a class="link-blues" href="https://www.nobleapplications.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Noble Applications</a></li>
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Projects ranged from building and maintaining heavily modified/customized WordPress installs integrated with numerous external data sources to managing large WordPress Multi-site networks featuring heavy integration of proprietary, sensitive data to building React/Redux-powered front ends to consume API data from any number of sources.
It also allowed me more opportunities to work on my passion: API development and data architecture using Rails 6.
Due to numerous major life changes, I opted to wind down my obligations throughout 2021, and closed the business at the end of the year.

Owner, CEO, full-stack developer

Lead developer for all-things front end. The preferred stack was React with Redux, but there were a few Angular and rich jQuery applications that had to be maintained as well. Some basic WordPress sites were created for marketing purposes, but most work was putting some kind of admin interface on top of a Java API that was powering Android/iOS apps.

Full-stack developer

Lead WordPress and front end developer; mentor to numerous junior developers. Concepted, designed, built, and maintained mobile-friendly, interactive websites for numerous clients using WordPress, Drupal (6, 7, 8), ModX, and X-Cart. Created an onboarding learning track for new developers to complete in order to learn our internal processes and workflows.

Front End Developer

Built high quality, responsive/mobile-ready emails from the ground up, tested across the board in Litmus for numerous clients, including: Hewlett-Packard, Marriott, Sport Chalet, Lands’ End, Intel, Silver Star Brands, Darden Restaurants, and VSP among many others.

Web Developer

Sole point of contact for all client services and development needs for 13 clients, including eBay, eBay Australia, Half.com, and Bassmaster. I ran weekly status meetings, strategy planning sessions, and then built out highly-dynamic emails based on client needs. I was also responsible for creating targeted recipient lists based on provided criteria for each send.

Campaign (Support) Specialist

Built, QA&#8217;d, and deployed highly-dynamic HTML and text emails for DirecTV, Samsung, Royal Caribbean International, Intel, Blockbuster, TGI Fridays, Wendy&#8217;s, GMACI Insurance, and many more. The dynamic prototype I built in two days using ExactTarget (and learning it from the ground up in the process) for Royal Caribbean secured Merkle that multi-million dollar contract. I also interacted directly with clients, running status calls and addressing minor client services needs.

Email Developer

Helped design, build, and launch the corporate website and implement updated branding standards for all web and print properties. Created a fabric swatch viewer application using Adobe Flex 3 to replace a 400-page static HTML microsite, making maintenance much easier and allowing for greater functionality. Lead developer in conjunction with IT on a SharePoint portal for construction clients to manage all relevant documents and information. Managed the transactional site content: created monthly promos, added new products, removed expired products, and etc. Handled all dynamic email messaging through Lyris. Also interned this same job on the same team in the marketing department during college, from March 2005 &#8211; November 2006.

Web Content Developer II

Built and QA’d the XML backend powering an Adobe Flash application for the Harley-Davidson 2009 Motorcycles website. The application contained stats and other informational data for each of the motorcycle models and all associated accessories/features/add-ons for each, in eight different languages.

XML Developer

Responsible for managing the enormous intranet library of proprietary industry knowledge used by compliance and most other departments of the company. It was built in Microsoft CMS 2002 (the awful precursor to SharePoint). I was the point of contact for a team of 11 Technical Writers and either solved their technical intranet problems myself or worked with IT to solve them to ensure they were able to add new and manage existing content that was vital to call centers successfully complete their jobs.

Web & Technology Designer

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Experience

A small selection of sites and applications I've built or otherwise contributed to throughout my career that I'm proud of and feel highlight my skills and strengths

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The languages, frameworks, and technologies I've focused most on, but not an exhaustive list

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GWP is a heavily customized WordPress Multisite network of well over 60 subsites for each country in which JHI operates, broken down by investor types, with any relevant language translations provided (WPML). Over 70 external data sources are integrated both in the back and front end, providing critical, up-to-the-minute financial data, dynamic tools, and relevant informational content to investors of all types around the world.

Janus Henderson Investors – Global Web Platform (GWP)

A one-off site under the Janus Henderson Investors umbrella that uses design aesthetics similar to the Global Web Platform project. This site also incorporates numerous external data sources, but only focuses on a specific subset of index products offered by Janus with content in English.

Janus Henderson Indices

Shorewest, the largest real estate company in Wisconsin, needed a mobile-friendly facelift for its entirely custom CMS which is hosted and maintained by a third-party company. I was tasked with creating functional, stand-alone HTML prototypes of each page type based on the approved designs. Code was delivered to the third-party who them implemented it in the CMS. This project was initially completed while at Top Floor, between 2015-2016 and the relationship was continued with KLK Code from 2018-2021.

Shorewest, REALTORS

Agents are able to have their own mini-site (in addition to their bio page on the main site) which allows for more customization. Two designs were chosen with two color variants each and then additional features that can be changed on a whim (such as grid-width or full-width hero sections). The gotcha with this project was that the custom CMS the third-party built is incredibly rigid, so despite these two designs being very different aesthetically, the underlying HTML structure had to be identical. It was a real-life CSS Zen Garden challenge. On top of that, separate stylesheets had to be generated for each color variant automatically, so this required a complex Sass workflow to achieve.

Shorewest, REALTORS – Agents sites

An entirely custom, WordPress theme built with heavy use of the Flexible Content field from Advanced Custom Fields. The design was mostly simple, but due to the dynamic nature of each page&#8217;s layout, making individual page templates would&#8217;ve been pointless. Instead, highly customizable blocks of content were created with numerous block-level options for controlling aesthetics and content.

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Ruby

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Software Engineer @ ADI/SnapOne

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Owner, CEO, full-stack engineer
Codebobulate, LLC

Owner, CEO, full-stack developer
KLK Code LLC

Full-stack developer
Noble Applications

Front End Developer
Top Floor Technologies

Web Developer
Yesmail/Infogroup

Campaign (Support) Specialist
eBay Enterprise

Email Developer
Merkle, Inc.

Web Content Developer II
Direct Supply, Inc.

XML Developer
WHITTMANHART

Web & Technology Designer
Assurant Health

Ruby

JavaScript

WordPress

Other

Software Engineer @ ADI/SnapOne

Owner, CEO, full-stack engineerCodebobulate, LLC

Owner, CEO, full-stack developerKLK Code LLC

Full-stack developerNoble Applications

Front End DeveloperTop Floor Technologies

Web DeveloperYesmail/Infogroup

Campaign (Support) SpecialisteBay Enterprise

Email DeveloperMerkle, Inc.

Web Content Developer IIDirect Supply, Inc.

XML DeveloperWHITTMANHART

Web & Technology DesignerAssurant Health