Kirk Bowers
Senior Software Engineer (Remote) at Underdog Fantasy
Temecula, California, United States
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Top SchoolKirk Bowers is a senior software engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience delivering full-stack systems across industries from feature film VFX to fintech, e-commerce, and medical research. He combines deep Ruby on Rails and React expertise with a track record of technical leadership—rewriting front-ends, authoring reusable component libraries, and architecting pragmatic testing and deployment practices. Kirk also invents tools to simplify complex workflows (DSLs for credit policy and checklist editors, the MUM transformation framework) that have accelerated teams and eliminated error-prone manual work. He’s comfortable across languages and platforms—from Swift/Kotlin mobile CV solutions to C++ game and animation engines—and mentors teams in clean architecture and test-driven development. Based in Temecula, CA, he pairs a rare blend of creative problem solving (film-era R&D for fluid and crowd simulation) with modern production engineering for payment processing and subscription services.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of North TexasMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English
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Github Skills (17)
dsl7
ruby-wrapper7
fsm-library7
state-machine7
woocommerce-api6
ruby-on-rails6
api6
jquery6
javascript6
rubygems6
image6
modeling5
fsm5
ruby5
aasm5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kirkbowers/sphec
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 73 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
kirkbowers/js-rails-routes
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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