Kevin Perrine
Staff Software Engineer at Vivun
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKevin Perrine is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building practical web and mobile solutions, currently leading engineering at Vivun from Asheville, NC. He blends strong communication and teaching skills with hands-on expertise across PHP (WordPress, Laravel), React/TypeScript, React Native, Java, and Objective-C to turn complex problems into clear, implementable systems. Kevin has a track record of shipping front-end improvements in high-profile open-source projects like IBM’s Carbon Design System, adding interaction callbacks and component extensibility that improve real user workflows. His background spans startups, enterprise teams, and running his own development firm, reflecting both technical depth and product-minded ownership. Known for distilling technical complexity for stakeholders, he often bridges design systems to production-ready apps while mentoring teams on sustainable delivery.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Virginia TechSummit SemesterFocus on the Family InstituteG42 Leadership Academy
Stackoverflow
407reputation
24kreached
8answers
3questions
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
ui-components10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
sys10
react10
jes9
sc9
jtest9
scs9
jestjs9
html8
code-coverage6
pbx6
php6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Carbon Design System's React components. Their work involved adding new functionality to existing components like Search and DataTable, including adding `onClear`, `onBlur`, and `onFocus` callbacks. They also updated stories and tests to reflect these changes, and added a `renderSelectedItem` prop to the Dropdown component. The commits focused on enhancing user interaction and component behavior within the design system.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
kevinsperrine/craco-workbox
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
A simple craco plugin to override the workbox config in CRA2
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
workboxoverridecraco-plugincracoconfig
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.