Karen Kelley
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKaren Kelley is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently driving projects at Amazon after rising through SDE roles since 2016. A math major turned mostly self-taught Rails developer, she focuses on pragmatic, maintainable code and tooling that helps people work more efficiently. Her background spans backend systems in Rails, Go, Java and scripting for automation, with early work on operator billing integrations at Nokia/Microsoft. She contributes to meaningful open-source projects like ifme, improving group management, refactoring controllers and views, and enhancing maintainability and UX for a mental health communication app. Based in Minneapolis, she blends analytical rigor with hands-on engineering and a track record of shipping dependable, readable systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Universität SalzburgBack End Web Development Course, Back End Web Development Course at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics at Colgate UniversityMinnehaha Academy
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
rspec10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
javascript9
html9
rails8
sc7
scs7
webpack5
webpacker5
ruby-rails5
react4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 48 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Karen's contributions primarily involve refactoring the `groups_controller` and related views, indicating a focus on the application's group management features. They modified the `groups/index` and `groups/show` views, implementing helper methods to streamline code and improve readability, along with implementing features like alphabetizing members and cleaning up code. They also updated the factories and model associations and implemented features like redirecting to the index, and a complete rewrite of the update leaders method. This user is focused on improving the structure, maintainability, and functionality of the ifme web app.
mental-healthjestcapybarareact-testing-librarycommunity-driven
kkelleey/curbshop
Nov 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:85 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 2 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubyrails-like
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