Kelly Milligan
Staff Software Engineer at Headspace
Auckland, Auckland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Milligan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building responsive, production-grade frontends using React, TypeScript and CSS-in-JS, currently driving frontend at Headspace. She has repeatedly led greenfield projects and design systems—introducing Storybook, migrating tooling to pnpm, and raising test coverage from ~30% to ~60%—to improve developer experience and delivery speed. Her background spans B2B SaaS and consumer products, where she shipped features, CI/CD flows, and performance optimizations while collaborating closely with design and backend teams. Comfortable authoring RFCs and owning architecture decisions, Kelly blends hands-on implementation with pragmatic engineering leadership. Based in Auckland, she also explores creative front-end and generative art work, reflecting a knack for marrying technical rigor with visual craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Strategy Execution Valuation, MBA Strategy Execution Valuation at DePaul Driehaus College of BusinessBBA Management Information Systems, BBA Management Information Systems at The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business
Github Skills (36)
artwork9
generative9
datepicker8
react8
photoshop8
inline8
animation8
gatsby7
spring7
graphql7
frontend6
vue-datepicker6
transparency6
dates6
vue6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kellymilligan/antiques
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Retired but not forgotten
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
world-of-warcraft
kellymilligan/ClassList
Apr 2019 - Mar 2022
Reusable classes for working with different canvas contexts
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 11 months
canvasjavascriptcontextsreusable
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