Kerry Powell
Software Engineer at Wilcore Technologies, Inc.
Pocatello, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKerry Powell is a Senior Frontend Engineer and Technical Lead with over a decade of experience designing performant, accessible web applications and guiding cross-functional teams. They have led migrations from legacy templating to React and implemented serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, S3, Fargate and Terraform to improve scalability for high-traffic international sites. At va.gov they modernized UI components to USWDS standards, removed legacy CSS at scale, and enabled critical Node.js upgrades without regressions. Kerry pairs deep front-end skills (React, TypeScript, Web Components, Sass) with practical DevOps and testing experience (GitHub Actions, Cypress, Mocha) to ship resilient user experiences. Based in Pocatello, Idaho, they bring a track record of mentoring engineers and translating design intent into accessible, performant implementations. A detail that sets them apart: they’ve repeatedly tackled large-scale cleanup and modernization efforts that unlocked platform upgrades and long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Management Information Systems General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Management Information Systems General at Utah State University
Github Skills (30)
npm-package10
frontend10
react10
slack-bot9
npm9
bolt-js9
web-components9
api9
documentation8
rails8
codebase8
ruby8
schema-validation8
json8
storybook8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
department-of-veterans-affairs/platform-support-slackbot
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The Slackbot is written with JavaScript using the bolt.js framework. Bolt.js is a framework created by Slack to make it easier to build Slack applications.
Contributions:3 reviews, 80 commits, 24 PRs in 10 months
boltjs-frameworkjavascriptslackbotslack-bot
powellkerry/powellkerry.github.io
Dec 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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