Kevin Labranche
Lead Developer Technical Architect - Architecture Team at Alpha Consulting Technologies
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Labranche is a pragmatic software architect and hands-on lead developer with 15+ years building and operationalizing web applications and engineering practices for higher education and government. At Northern Arizona University he champions CI/CD, secure coding, accessibility, and reproducible build pipelines—authoring nearly 200 practice guides and driving the team to sub-hour MTTR and under 1% CFR. He codes primarily in C#, ASP.NET Core/Full Framework, EF, JavaScript and SQL Server, and has a knack for turning institutional needs into resilient systems used by tens of thousands of students. A natural mentor and developer advocate, he iterates on processes by listening first, then teaching SOLID, feature flags, safe DB changes and TDD to raise team capability. Outside of his NAU role he runs a long-standing consulting practice, demonstrating entrepreneurial technical leadership alongside public-sector impact.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
CPM - Certified Public Manager, CPM - Certified Public Manager at Arizona State UniversityCIS, CSE Minor, CIS, CSE Minor at Northern Arizona University-The W. A. Franke College of Business
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Github Skills (94)
nuget10
nunit10
cropperjs10
asp-net10
cake-build10
build-automation10
azure-pipelines10
azure-devops-server10
dotnet10
continuous-integration10
image-cropper10
cropper10
unit-testing10
azure-boards10
xunit10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
klabranche/pytoh
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:59 pushes in 6 days
klabranche/ContosoUniversity
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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