Em Kingan
Senior Software Engineer II at ActBlue
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEm Kingan is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Portland with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications across Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, and distributed systems. They blend technical depth with entrepreneurial chops—running a small tax and bookkeeping firm since 2005—bringing practical business and accounting insight to product decisions for small-business and mission-driven customers. At companies like New Relic, DataStax, and ActBlue they’ve shipped high-throughput, fault-tolerant services and self-serve UIs, and recently focused on GraphQL/Apollo and modern JS tooling. Comfortable across relational and NoSQL databases, they’re eager to deepen work in Elixir, Go, and Node while applying a collaborative, test-first engineering style. An accomplished musician and longtime cooperative owner, Em often bridges creative and analytical perspectives to solve complex problems and prioritize social impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Nashoba Regional High SchoolFashion/Apparel Design, Fashion/Apparel Design at Portland Community CollegeBA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at Reed CollegeFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at General AssemblyPhotography, Photography at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Portuguese, Spanish, French, English
Stackoverflow
303reputation
7kreached
2answers
9questions
Github Skills (22)
higher-order-component9
forms8
react-hooks8
react7
formik7
backlog6
ruby-on-rails6
newrelic6
enzyme6
chai6
amazon-s36
bash6
javascript6
react-native6
carrierwave6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ekingan/mathllc-app
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:35 PRs, 227 pushes, 39 branches in 5 years 7 months
ekingan/crossfitCrazy
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 94 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
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