Kiefer Cover
Senior Software Engineer at Guaranteed Rate
Surprise, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiefer Cover is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently driving backend and infrastructure work at Guaranteed Rate. He focuses on reliable back-end systems, CI/CD, and developer workflow improvements, while also contributing solid front-end React work and mobile apps for Android and iOS. Comfortable on Lean/Agile teams, he runs scrum rituals and prefers functional programming approaches that emphasize maintainability. His open-source contributions include backend improvements to the DDF distributed data framework, showing attention to code quality, catalog functionality, and registry correctness. Based in Surprise, Arizona, he pairs practical production experience with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University. Outside of engineering he’s an avid gamer and outdoor athlete, which he says helps him stay sharp and persistent when solving complex technical problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering), Computer Software Engineering, Alumni, Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering), Computer Software Engineering, Alumni at Arizona State UniversityComputer Science, Alumni, Computer Science, Alumni at Glendale Community College
English
Github Skills (7)
javas10
osgi10
ddf10
java10
saml9
testing8
css4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 26 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kiefer primarily contributed to the DDF (Distributed Data Framework) project, focusing on backend improvements. Their work involved renaming test files to align with established naming conventions, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. The user also extended catalog transformer commands and fixed the registry local identity node population for a custom site name, showcasing expertise in catalog functionality and registry handling. Furthermore, the user made changes to relative time queries.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
kcover/replication
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Replication Application
Contributions:119 pushes, 34 branches in 8 months
replication
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