Jonathan Kemp
Senior Software Engineer at Clayton Homes
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Kemp is a Senior Software Engineer based in Knoxville, Tennessee with 13 years of hands-on experience building polished front-end experiences using React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery and WordPress. He has driven UI architecture and delivery across media and consumer-focused companies including Clayton Homes, Discovery, and Scripps Networks, often bridging design intent and maintainable build systems. An active open-source contributor, Jonathan refactored and modernized the gulp-useref build pipeline to better handle asset streams, relative paths and test coverage—showing an attention to tooling that improves team velocity. He blends a practical, standards-driven front-end skillset with a curiosity rooted in a nontraditional academic background (BS in Biology), which surfaces in pragmatic problem-solving and cross-disciplinary thinking.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biology, BS, Biology at University of Tennessee at Martin
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Github Skills (8)
gulp10
javascript10
html9
css9
nodejs8
inline6
gulp-uglify6
backbonejs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonkemp/gulp-useref
Feb 2014 - Mar 2022
Parse build blocks in HTML files to replace references to non-optimized scripts or stylesheets.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:174 commits, 40 PRs, 140 pushes in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on refactoring and updating the project's build process for optimizing HTML files. They introduced separate streams for handling assets and restoring HTML files, along with modifying how CSS and JavaScript files are concatenated. They also refactored the tests, fixed search path and other minor test issues, and added features and bug fixes related to handling relative paths and external streams of assets.
gulp-pluginjavascriptstylesheetscompressoptimized
jonkemp/flat-util
Jan 2020 - Feb 2025
Small utility to flatten a nested array
Contributions:3 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 1 month
arrayutilutilityjavascript
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