Val Hovey
Senior Software Engineer at Starry Expanse Project
Logan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVal Hovey is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of full-stack experience, currently building product at Mercury after senior engineering work at Brilliant.org and earlier roles at Atomic Jolt. He holds a BS in Computational Mathematics from Utah State University and combines mathematical rigor with practical engineering—designing intuitive web interfaces for sensor data and automating mechatronics for astronomical instrumentation. Based in Logan, Utah, Val brings a track record of shipping user-focused systems, from educational platforms to hardware automation, and maintains long-term volunteer/system-administration involvement with the Starry Expanse Project. Equally at home debugging web stacks and tinkering with physical systems, he channels an outdoorsman’s curiosity—rock climbing, skiing, and photography—into methodical problem solving and creative engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computational Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational Mathematics at Utah State UniversityAvery Middle SchoolElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Freshman, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Freshman at Cuesta CollegeHigh School, High School at Bret Harte High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (137)
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react-native9
ios9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kylehovey/nest-safely
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Functional and debuggable nested object access wrapper
Contributions:2 releases, 31 commits, 25 pushes in 10 months
javascriptfunctional-programming
kylehovey/kylehovey.github.io
Apr 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:261 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 1 month
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