Kyle Karpack

Seattle, WA | (425) 761-9021 | https://kylekarpack.com

I am an experienced software engineer specializing in front-end development for large-scale applications. I have experience across the software development lifecycle, from leading teams and making business-critical product design decisions to architecting scalable software and building world-class user experiences.

SKILLS

Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, C#

Platforms: React, Angular/AngularJS, NodeJS, NextJS, Gatsby, .NET, Azure, AWS, Ionic, GraphQL, ElasticSearch

Tooling: Webpack, Babel, NPM, Yarn, Jest, Testing Library, Cypress, Git, Jira, CI/CD, Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Adobe, Seattle, WA

Senior Front-End Engineer October 2019 - Present

Leading front-end efforts towards Adobe’s goal to bring its newly-acquired Bizible product onto the Adobe platform. As a front-end engineer for the Bizible product, I have swiftly completed goals such as:

Migrating Bizible’s main business intelligence UI to a new framework and infrastructure while adding new features, improving build time by 80%, and exceeding Adobe’s targeted code quality and performance metrics
Leading a product-wide goal to move new development to React and leverage Adobe’s Unified Shell architecture
Working on the Product Quality team to simplify account management, improve code coverage, and reduce bugs

Net-Inspect LLC, Kirkland, WA

Lead Front-End EngineerAugust 2018 - August 2019

Led a team of developers building the leading SaaS application for manufacturing quality management. Accomplishments include:

Completion and launch of a full rewrite of the application in Angular
Responsibility for architectural decisions, sprint planning, mentoring junior developers, and interviewing candidates
Implementation of regular code reviews, code quality standards, automated testing, extensive documentation, and performance budgets to reduce bugs and improve developer productivity
Migration to Microsoft Azure to reduce costs and provide scalability

Software Engineer March 2013 - July 2018

Built and maintained the Net-Inspect application. Accomplishments include:

Implementation of modern development system including SCSS, Webpack, TypeScript, and continuous integration
Construction of a robust set of reusable interface components
Design and development of innovative new data visualization products including capability scoring, supply chain risk mapping, and electronic source inspection

EDUCATION

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

B.S.E., Human-Centered Design and Engineering

Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction