Kevin Killingsworth
Director Of Engineering at Consensus
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Killingsworth is a pragmatic engineering leader with 20+ years of software experience and 11 years in senior roles, currently directing engineering for buyer enablement at Consensus while also leading product engineering at ReachSuite. He spans embedded systems to modern web stacks (ES6+, React) and has a track record of shipping front-end UX improvements and backend integrations for large open-source projects like WooCommerce. Kevin has led and mentored cross-functional teams, written SDKs, and bridged engineering with product and business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into usable platforms. His background includes robotics automation, automotive audio/wireless, and developer tools—an uncommon blend that fuels practical architecture and hands-on execution. Based in Traverse City, Michigan, he’s a tinkerer at heart who prefers working relationships built from real collaboration rather than cold connections.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oral Roberts UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Willard High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Missouri State University
English
Github Skills (23)
woocommerce10
javascript10
component-design10
api-design10
component-development10
wordpress10
tableview10
php10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
html10
react10
restful-api9
ecommerce9
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-admin
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged to woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 45 PRs, 63 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on updating and refactoring code related to the `@wordpress/data` library and its integration within the WooCommerce Admin project. They addressed issues arising from version updates, ensuring compatibility between v2 and v3 of the library. Furthermore, the user implemented and integrated the `@fresh-data/framework`, replacing existing selectors and introducing new API functionality for WooCommerce. The user also made multiple improvements to the table components and user interface.
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woocommerce/woocommerce
Feb 2016 - Jun 2019
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 12 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on updating and improving the WooCommerce admin interface, specifically related to the `@wordpress/data` library. Their work involved refactoring resolvers to ensure compatibility with different versions of the library, fixing tests, and adding support for the "fresh-data" framework, which included temporary code for `withSelect`. They also contributed to UI enhancements by updating the table component and adding user preference settings for column visibility in report tables.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
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