Kel Reid
Senior Software Engineer In Test at Expel
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKel Reid is a Senior Software Engineer in Test and Software Quality Architect with over a decade building testing frameworks, infrastructure, and automation for companies from Harris Corporation to Expel. He specializes in TDD and BDD, designing scalable test architectures that bridge mobile, backend, and cloud services while maintaining a hands-on approach to coding. Kel’s open-source contributions include algorithm and data structure implementations in Swift, reflecting a strong foundation in computer science and performance-minded problem solving. Based in Virginia Beach, he brings experience across enterprise and startup environments, rapidly moving teams from manual QA to continuous, automated quality pipelines. Notably, he pairs practical engineering leadership with deep algorithmic competence—an uncommon combination that helps him optimize both test strategy and core system behavior.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Science at ECPI University
Github Skills (12)
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
data-structure10
binary-search-tree10
dijkstra9
mergesort9
heapsort9
heap8
hashtable8
queue8
queuing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/swift-algorithm-club
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kel primarily contributed to the Swift algorithm club by updating and implementing algorithms and data structures. The commits reflect updates to existing implementations of core data structures like Binary Search Trees, Queues, Hash Sets, Hash Tables, and Heaps. The user also worked on algorithms like Dijkstra's and Merge Sort, demonstrating a focus on algorithm and data structure implementation within the Swift programming language.
explanationsdata-structuresswiftalgorithms-and-data-structures
KelCodesStuff/Automation-Example
Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
A web testing framework.
Contributions:13 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
testing-frameworktestingweb-testingjavaintellij
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