Summary
Kelly Zick is a front-end software engineer based in Denver with nine years of professional experience and a human-centered approach to building accessible, high-performance web products. Currently at Curative, she architects and ships client-side features in a TypeScript/React monorepo, collaborates on API design, and advocates for improved code quality and cross-team empathy. Her background in music and performance—holding an MM in Vocal Performance and long experience as a professional singer and teacher—gives her a rare blend of discipline, attention to nuance, and user-focused communication. Kelly is comfortable driving technical decisions, mentoring teammates, and translating user research into polished interfaces. She balances rigorous engineering practices (TDD, Storybook, Jest) with creative problem solving, and enjoys making things that matter both on-screen and off.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Teacher Education, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music Teacher Education at Fort Lewis College
Front End Engineering, Front End Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Master of Music, Vocal Performance, Master of Music, Vocal Performance at University of Denver