Kirk Pettinga
Senior Web Engineer at demandDrive
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Pettinga is a seasoned Senior Web Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping full‑stack web products, currently building at demandDrive. Trained as a graphic designer (BFA, Western Michigan University), he uniquely blends visual craft with engineering rigor to translate designs into performant React and CMS-driven applications. He’s led product development from concept to quarterly releases, built an e-commerce platform from scratch, and modernized healthcare web properties using component-based architectures. Comfortable across front-end frameworks (React, Vue), PHP/CMS APIs, and payments integrations, Kirk also partners directly with stakeholders and IT teams to ensure reliability and compliance. A maker of things with bits and pixels, he brings a designer’s eye to engineering decisions—prioritizing usable, maintainable systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Western Michigan University
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Github Skills (57)
webpack8
javascript8
contenteditable7
nodejs7
json7
draggable7
pattern7
css7
drag7
wysiwyg7
text-editing7
editing7
rich-text-editor7
react7
compiler6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ObjectiveSubject/ccl
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:136 pushes, 79 comments, 71 issues in 1 year
ObjectiveSubject/obsub
Jan 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:142 pushes, 3 branches, 37 comments in 2 years 4 months
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