Kevin Simpson
Senior Engineering Manager
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Simpson is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Denver with eight years of hands-on web and mobile engineering experience and a background in music education that informs his collaborative, communication-first leadership style. He leads distributed teams at Hotel Engine, driving frontend and mobile rebrands, reducing technical debt, and improving developer and customer experiences through modern tooling, Auth0 security, Datadog/LogRocket observability, and Maestro e2e testing. A Turing School-trained front-end specialist, Kevin is fluent in React, TypeScript, React Native, and UI/UX practices and has run company-wide initiatives like the React Guild and onboarding programs to raise engineering standards. He pairs operational rigor—release/hotfix processes and regression testing—with a coach-first approach to managing 10+ direct reports across web, mobile, and design systems teams. Formerly a band and orchestra director, he leverages curriculum design and large-scale coordination skills to scale cross-functional collaboration. Outside work he’s a recovering bassoonist and father, a detail that hints at his patient, steady approach to complex engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Engineering, Front End Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Music, Music Education, Bachelor of Music, Music Education at Butler University
English
Github Skills (23)
facebook9
movie8
testing8
javascript7
api7
nodejs6
hosting5
azerothcore5
ios4
manifest4
trinitycore4
android4
appstore4
cli4
automation3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kayyali18/Formula-1-API
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A Formula 1 API built using Node, Express
Contributions:71 commits, 35 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 days
apinode-expressformula-1javascriptexpress
relasine/SWAPIBox
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:56 PRs, 64 pushes, 31 branches in 1 month
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