Kael Lumen
Staff Software Engineer at Rec Technologies
Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKael Lumen is a Staff Software Engineer and systems architect with over a decade of hands-on experience building and migrating web platforms from PHP monoliths to Typescript microservices. He blends deep API and DevX expertise with practical leadership—having served as CTO of a fintech startup and led engineering teams to improve productivity, testing, and CI/CD practices. His technical focus spans Typescript/Node, React, Docker, and service-oriented design, with notable work integrating blockchain providers and production Ethereum nodes for trading platforms. Kael is equally comfortable writing architecture and rolling up his sleeves to execute tickets, and he has a track record of cutting technical debt while implementing fraud monitoring and automated deployments. Based in Bolingbrook, IL, he brings an unusual mix of music-educated creativity (Berklee film scoring background) and pragmatic engineering that surfaces in elegant system migrations and developer-centric tooling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Film Scoring and Composition, Film Scoring and Composition at Berklee College of Music
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
swagger10
oas10
specification10
openapi10
classify10
swagger-ui10
api10
data-transfer10
symfony10
nodejs10
package-manager10
css10
php10
android-gradle-plugin10
rest-api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openfinanceio/php-application
Nov 2017 - May 2021
An experimental application foundation
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
foundation
kael-shipman/ks-std-libs
Jul 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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