Kyle Welch
Senior Software Engineer at UndergroundJS
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Welch is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience who blends hands-on full-stack development at Atlassian with active open-source contributions, notably extending the popular Parcel bundler to improve transformers, sourcemaps, and asset packaging. Based in Nashville, he brings practical QA and test-automation skills from work on React+Redux starter tooling and a history of accelerating delivery across organizations from NFIB to INXPO. A community leader who chairs UndergroundJS and coordinates speakers for Nodevember, he pairs public speaking and event involvement with deep engineering chops. Outside the code, he’s a family-focused, taco-loving technologist who enjoys turning messy frontend build problems into reliable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelors, Computer and Information Sciences at DeVry University
English
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
coffeescript10
asset-catalog10
testing10
css10
test-framework10
bundle10
redux10
jestjs10
html10
posthtml10
build-tools10
snapshot-testing10
while-loop10
asset-management10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
coryhouse/react-slingshot
Aug 2016 - May 2019
React + Redux starter kit / boilerplate with Babel, hot reloading, testing, linting and a working example app built in
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 36 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on improving the test suite for the React + Redux starter kit. Their contributions include updating and adding snapshot tests for the `fuelSavingsCalculator` and store components, ensuring consistent test results across different machines. They also addressed linting errors, moved to a simpler test script, and upgraded dependencies to fix audit and peer dependency issues. Additionally, the user switched a test to use `.toThrow` for error assertion.
jestreact-redux-starter-kitreactjshot-reloadingredux-starter-kit
parcel-bundler/parcel
May 2019 - Oct 2019
The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kyle made several contributions to the Parcel bundler, focusing on extending its functionality. They implemented and improved transformers for various file types, including PostHTML, CoffeeScript, and CSS. The user also worked on integrating new features like sourcemaps for CoffeeScript, enhancing the CSS packager to incorporate media queries, and improving the HTML packager for handling inline assets. Furthermore, the user was involved in updating and maintaining the test suite.
configurationzerocommonjscssjavascript
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