Stephen Kilbourn
Senior Software Engineer at Element 84
Hamilton, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Kilbourn is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years focused on full-stack development and a deep specialty in cloud-based geospatial data processing and Earth science systems. He has evolved from hands-on QA and automation roles into senior engineering, migrating fragile test suites to Playwright, building API test frameworks, and establishing linting and CI standards that improved developer experience and reliability. Comfortable across JavaScript and Java testing stacks (Cypress, Webdriver.io, Playwright) and AWS operations, he pairs pragmatic DevOps support with a systems-engineering mindset honed from earlier aerospace and defense work. Based in Hamilton, Montana, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective—combining EE training, formal systems engineering, and modern web tooling—to solve complex, data-intensive problems. Colleagues rely on him to translate rigorous quality practices into production-ready, scalable software and to mentor teams through release and process improvements.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasFull Stack JavaScript Development Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack JavaScript Development Computer Software Engineering at TreehouseEngineering, Engineering at LeTourneau University
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Github Skills (74)
e2e-testing10
testing10
automation10
web-testing10
javascript10
webdriver10
chromium10
webkit10
browser-automation10
firefox10
api10
test-automation10
puppeteer10
electron10
evolution10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NASA-IMPACT/veda-ingest-ui
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
A React Front End application that uses the github api to create PRs in veda-data to initiate data ingestion
Contributions:5 reviews, 81 PRs, 135 pushes in 3 months
stephenkilbourn/advent-of-code-2020
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:89 PRs, 25 pushes, 106 branches in 4 years
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