Marcel Kinard
Software Engineer at Relay
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMarcel Kinard is a seasoned software engineer with over three decades in technology and 13 years of focused industry experience, currently building Relay’s screenless communications device and its supporting backend and fulfillment systems. He bridges embedded on-device software, networking, and backoffice services, with a strong background in mobile Android development as an Apache Cordova committer who fixed tests, docs, and platform bugs. His career includes long tenure at IBM working on networking, Linux, and prototype systems, and he thrives in unstructured "whitespace" environments where he can invent pragmatic, elegant solutions. An Agile Scrum advocate and frequent integrator, Marcel’s most visible early work was IBM’s web scoring system for major tennis tournaments in the mid-1990s, showing his knack for impactful, behind-the-scenes engineering.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
mobile10
javas10
javascript10
android10
cordova10
java10
testing10
html8
test-automation8
android-studio6
ionic-framework6
splashscreen6
phonegap-plugin6
objective-c5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cordova-android
Sep 2012 - Jan 2015
Apache Cordova Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:40 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the Apache Cordova Android platform. Their contributions involved correcting hardcoded versions, cleaning up and fixing broken Android unit tests, updating documentation, and removing unnecessary dependencies. They also added and updated Cordova version information across several HTML files used in testing and fixed incorrect separators in meta tags and incorrect log tags.
cordova-platformcordovaapache-cordovajavascriptandroid
apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Apache Cordova InAppBrowser Plugin
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to the Android-specific tests for the Cordova InAppBrowser plugin. They focused on fixing test paths, updating URLs to use HTTPS, and ensuring the user agent was displayed correctly within the injected test pages. Further contributions included clarifying aspects of the test setup, such as identifying a non-existent anchor tag, and removing outdated documentation elements.
objective-ccordovaapache-cordovajavascriptapache
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