Kevin Ullyott
Software Development Director at Canyon GBS
Franklinton, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Ullyott is a software development leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, user-centric applications and leading multinational teams. As Software Development Director at Canyon GBS, he combines architecture and delivery oversight with mentoring to drive high-quality products for public and private sector clients. Technically fluent in Laravel, PHP, Vue.js and Ionic Capacitor, he contributes to open-source projects including meaningful back-end additions to the Laravel framework (job batching and retry behavior). Kevin’s background spans roles from front-end specialist to IT director, giving him a practical appreciation for both UX polish and operational needs. He prefers solving problems by working backward from customer outcomes, and quietly improves developer experience through thoughtful code quality fixes and unit tests. Based in Franklinton, NC, he balances leadership with continued hands-on contribution to code and community initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Murrieta Valley High SchoolAssociate’s Degree Web Design, Associate’s Degree Web Design at San Diego Mesa College
English
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Github Skills (24)
application-framework10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
app-framework10
user-interface10
laravel10
queuing10
php10
front-end-development10
html10
web-framework10
queue10
website-design8
site-design8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sudz123/happy_hacking
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Let's have a productive Hacktoberfest
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `happy_hacking` repository, which is a project related to Hacktoberfest. Their contributions include adding character encoding to the HTML file, removing a non-existent stylesheet reference, fixing a minor javascript issue. The user also made several cosmetic changes such as removing unnecessary tags and adding spacing between HTML attributes, demonstrating a focus on code quality and user experience. Furthermore, they added alt attributes to carousel images.
javascriptletproductive
laravel/framework
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by adding features related to batch processing of queued jobs. This involved implementing the ability to chain jobs within a batch and allowing closures to be included in the chain. They also wrote unit tests to ensure the correct functionality of the newly added batch features. Furthermore, the user modified the retry command to refresh the retryUntil timer.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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