Summary
Miranda Kahen is a full-stack web developer based in Boulder, Colorado, with nine years of professional experience and a six-year specialty building e-commerce applications. Magento-certified and experienced across Magento 1.x and 2.x, she has led complex migrations, custom module and payment gateway development, and performance troubleshooting for high-traffic stores. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, she blends PHP backend work, LAMP administration, data migrations and reporting with front-end WordPress and Drupal theming and UX-focused SEO analysis. She founded and runs Insight Designs Web Solutions, delivering client projects end-to-end and providing training and technical support. Miranda pairs strong academic foundations—a double major in English and Brain & Cognitive Sciences and a web development certificate—with a knack for translating analytical thinking into clearer user journeys and reliable commerce systems. Colleagues value her ability to turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, well-documented solutions that keep sites running and converting.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student, St. Catherine's College, Visiting Student, St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford
Bachelor's Degree, Double Major: English / Brain & Cognitive Sciences, GPA: 3.92/4.00, Bachelor's Degree, Double Major: English / Brain & Cognitive Sciences, GPA: 3.92/4.00 at University of Rochester
Graduate Certificate, Web Design and Development, GPA: 4.0, Graduate Certificate, Web Design and Development, GPA: 4.0 at University of Denver