Kevin Muenkel
Company Owner at Chess.com
Franklinton, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Muenkel is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with nine years of hands-on experience building and evolving backend systems, now running Last Stop Software after recent roles at Chess.com and several startups. He specializes in payment integrations, service-oriented designs with Protobuf and Kafka, and architecting maintainable systems that scale with changing data sources. Kevin has led small teams to convert manual processes into centralized apps, enforced testability and SOLID principles, and guided outsourced teams through complex API integrations. His work includes achieving high compliance in an LTI-certified eLearning integration and improving ROI metric logging for payment flows—details that reflect both product and operational focus. Based in Franklinton, NC, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a steady engineering discipline that favors practical, growth-minded architectures.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Programming, Bachelor's degree Computer Programming at Central Piedmont Community College
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Github Skills (61)
laravel10
php10
laravel-framework10
kebab-case8
authentication8
shield8
guzzle8
qbcore-framework8
web-token8
jwt7
lumen7
laravel-testing7
footprint6
api6
adapter6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kmuenkel/conduit
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
A Bridge package for Laravel that offers easy production and testing of API Adapters
Contributions:31 releases, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 4 years 8 months
apitestingphpbridgeadapters
dmeklund/tjcog-sandbox
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Sandbox environment for the TJCOG affordable housing Code for Durham project
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 3 months
kebab-caseaffordablesandbox-environmentqbcore-frameworkdurham
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