Kaemon Lovendahl
Agawam, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKaemon Lovendahl is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 8 years of experience building user-focused web applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and modern CI/CD practices. He excels at revitalizing messy or legacy experiences into maintainable, production-ready products, with deep experience in site-wide search, eReader UX, and API integrations including custom SOAP solutions. At Oddball he shipped DevOps improvements like GitHub Actions ephemeral environments, Datadog browser testing, and live-environment Cypress smoke tests that materially raised deployment confidence. He’s contributed to Backstage’s AWS integration by improving credential handling and test coverage, showing a comfort with both developer tooling and backend concerns. A self-taught full-stacker who values clean code, strong testing, and thoughtful UI/UX, he also publishes experiments and side projects—like a Rails+React app for Magic: The Gathering—and is known online as The Logic Warlock. Based in Agawam, MA, he’s as focused on developer experience and observability as he is on polished user interactions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at Riverton High SchoolAssociate of Science - AS, Biology, General, Associate of Science - AS, Biology, General at Southern Utah University
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Github Skills (9)
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typescript10
develop10
typescripts10
backend10
typescript-types10
aws-sdk10
infrastructure8
backstage8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kaemon focused on improving AWS credentials handling within the Backstage framework. Their primary contribution was adding the `region` parameter to the `getDefaultCredentialsChain` function, improving the configuration options for AWS integrations. They also wrote unit tests to ensure correct behavior and updated existing tests. This work directly impacts the usability and reliability of Backstage's AWS integrations.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
KaemonIsland/portfolio-legacy
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
This is my Portfolio website showing off everything that I have learned so far!
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years
everythinglearnedcssjavascriptcss3
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