Ariel Kirkwood
Software Engineer at JC Consulting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAriel Kirkwood is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-first web products and marketing sites that prioritize privacy, accessibility, and maintainability. They have hands-on expertise across HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Python/Django and Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and CI/CD tooling from Heroku to AWS, and have driven measurable improvements like reducing deploy times by 20% and upgrading legacy frameworks to supported versions. Ariel blends UX sensibility—wireframes, sitemaps and low-fidelity Figma prototypes—with backend engineering, having led an internal UI kit, API work for mobile apps, and a development-to-production pipeline that streamlined stakeholder review. They’re an advocate for testing, automation, and open-source tooling, and have practical experience adapting packages (e.g., for password policies) to fit business needs. A former co-founder of Drexel’s LAN association, Ariel brings collaborative energy and a long-standing curiosity about how software can better serve people. Based in Philadelphia, they enjoy tackling tight scopes with lean deliveries, such as focused web-scraping and price-intelligence projects.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
French Language & Culture, French Language & Culture at CIEE Student Exchange ProgramBachelor of Science Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Information Systems at Drexel University
French
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Github Skills (162)
github-app10
slack-integration10
jython9
json-data9
ruby9
pypy9
linter9
conversations9
analyzer9
cassandra9
jquery8
code-analyzer8
wagon8
formatter8
static-analysis8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
arielkirkwood/rails_tutorial_sample_app
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:139 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 16 days
arielkirkwood/etfwtf
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
wtf is an etf? wtf is in an etf?
Contributions:14 PRs, 87 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
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