Kenneth Ashley
Developer Relations Specialist
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Ashley is a Developer Relations Specialist and seasoned frontend engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a decade focused on JavaScript, plus two years in blockchain and Web3. He co-founded Vexchange, the leading decentralized exchange on VeChain, wearing roles from smart contract developer to product owner and scaling the platform to millions in annual transaction volume. Kenneth has led teams, shipped production-grade frontends at companies like The Graph and Gitcoin (contributing responsive UI and bounty UX improvements), and guided product strategy as a co-founder at Reservoir Labs. Based in Wake Forest, NC, he blends hands-on engineering, developer advocacy, and product leadership, and is known for translating complex protocols into usable interfaces. A creative tinkerer—“developer by day, hood rat by night”—he brings a practical, full-stack mindset and a knack for making blockchain tech feel approachable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A+ Computer Science, A+ Computer Science at Wake Technical Community CollegeDiploma, Diploma at Wake Forest Rollesville high
Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
javascript10
ui-design9
boa9
react5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitcoinco/web
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Grow Open Source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:62 commits, 10 PRs, 80 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily worked on the front-end development of the Gitcoin web application. They added and styled new components for external bounties, including the creation of HTML templates, CSS, and JavaScript files. Their contributions included making the bounty listings responsive, incorporating a search feature, and refactoring form elements, showcasing their focus on UI/UX improvements. The user also updated the styling and layout of other elements like the balance display and other forms.
ethereumbountiesgitcoinethgrow
vexchange/homepage-backend
May 2020 - Nov 2020
This repo contains the backend code that gathers the data displayed on the vexchange homepage.
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes in 5 months
backend
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