Kent Shepard
Lead React Engineer at Elavon, Inc.
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKent Shepard is a Lead React Engineer with eight years of experience building readable, maintainable front-end systems and reusable component frameworks. At Elavon he drove quality and consistency—creating framework components used in 300+ components, authoring 2,300+ Jest tests, and eliminating 10,000+ lint warnings to improve code health. He blends an analytical, engineering-first mindset (rooted in a mechanical engineering background) with practical UX and accessibility work, documenting 60 components in Storybook and measuring user behavior with Mixpanel. Comfortable across the stack, he has built GraphQL APIs and optimized client-state with Apollo, and he routinely translates complex mockups into production-ready React, HTML, and CSS. A former instructor who coached students through JavaScript fundamentals and interviewing, he communicates technical tradeoffs clearly and scales best practices across teams. Colleagues rely on him for systematic problem decomposition and durable, well-tested solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program at Hack ReactorBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at University of KentuckyGithub contributions (5)
TheBowlers/Greenfield
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:123 commits, 27 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 months
KentShepard/awaywego
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:82 pushes, 31 branches in 22 days
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