Kevin Whitley
Software Engineer at WhitHous Capital
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Whitley is a software engineer, open-source author, and cloud architect with two decades of experience building globally-available, simple-to-operate systems and organizational tooling that accelerate idea-to-production velocity. He balances leadership and hands-on IC work, shipping end-to-end products and developer-focused libraries—his minimalist itty family of JS tools sees millions of downloads annually and powers serverless APIs, dev tooling, and browser apps. Recent work centers on modern serverless stacks (SvelteKit, Vite, Cloudflare Workers) while a long history with React/Node and backend systems informs his pragmatic design choices. Kevin enjoys optimizing for fast failure and fast learning, and has a knack for shrinking complex systems into tiny, human-readable primitives (he literally writes “little things to simplify other things”). Based in Houston, he’s also built a browser-native realtime trading platform that demonstrates his ability to fuse performance, UX polish, and instrumentation in a single product.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters E-Commerce & Strategic Marketing, Masters E-Commerce & Strategic Marketing at Mays Business School - Texas A&M UniversityBachelors Psychology Computer Science, Bachelors Psychology Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityCypress Creek
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Github Skills (22)
caching10
javascript10
middleware10
redis10
routers10
testing10
router10
express-ts10
nodejs10
disk-cache10
object-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
nodes10
api-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kwhitley/apicache
Dec 2017 - Oct 2021
Simple API-caching middleware for Express/Node.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 87 commits, 77 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to enhancing the apicache middleware for Express/Node. Their work included fixing Redis-related issues, such as adjusting parameters for the `ioredis.expire` function and addressing potential content type problems. They also implemented features like ETag support for conditional requests and ensuring string content is correctly buffered. Furthermore, they added tests and removed ES6 for older node compatibility.
apimemoryredisrestifynode-express
kwhitley/itty-router
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
A little router.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 372 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the itty-router project, implementing core functionalities and improving the overall structure. Their work included porting shell code and integrating tests. They refactored the code, added the chaining functionality, and reworked the implementation using a proxy method. Further contributions included adding features like greedy params, and dot notations as a route param, while fixing multiple edge cases.
service-workerroutingworkerbunrouter
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