Summary
Kevin Kelchen is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a strong frontend specialty, currently leading frontend efforts at OpenGov after a long tenure at Cartegraph. He brings full-stack fluency rooted in ASP.NET, C#, and modern JavaScript frameworks, with a history of building and evolving n-tier single-page applications. Kevin has progressed through roles from intern to staff engineer, showing steady technical growth and hands-on ownership of builds, installations, and complex UI work. Based in Dubuque, Iowa, he pairs practical Midwestern reliability with mentoring and team leadership across product lifecycles. An often-overlooked strength is his early caregiving and conservator experience, which cultivated resilience, meticulous documentation, and stakeholder communication that translate into dependable engineering leadership.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Loras College