Kelly Kiernan
Product Architect Trade CX at Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Kiernan is a senior full-stack software engineer and product architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, production-ready web and serverless applications at Vanguard. A Magna Cum Laude Drexel graduate in Computing & Security Technology, Kelly has progressed from hands-on full-stack development to leading technical strategy for trade and portfolio construction experiences, establishing team best practices and mentoring engineers. Their work blends front-end design system implementation, mid-tier modernization, observability (OpenTelemetry/Honeycomb/Splunk), and operational readiness (PagerDuty, multi-region deployments). Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks, Kelly has a proven track record of translating client research and experiments into robust, auditable features. Based in Philadelphia, they bring a pragmatic, security-minded approach to building resilient financial systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computing & Security Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computing & Security Technology at Drexel UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.), Information Sciences and Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.), Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
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Github Skills (97)
testing10
php-library10
javascript10
sublime-text10
ionic10
laravel10
faker10
dummy-data10
slug10
angular10
vue10
factory10
php10
frontend10
react10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kkiernan/php-timer
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:9 releases, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
timerphp
kkiernan/caesar-cipher-php
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
cryptographypythoncaesarciphercaesar-cipher
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