Kenneth B.

When I'm not building large scale, performant mobile systems accessed by millions of users daily, you can find me juggling as many hobbies as I can - micro controllers, 3d printing, game development, networking, jiu jitsu, and home brewing. I am a seasoned and result-driven staff software engineer with over 10+ years of experience working across full stack development, mobile engineering, cloud architecture, embedded systems, game development, and ML/AI technology. I've worked in roles at enterprises, startups, and as a consultant conceptualizing apps for 18+ clients. I believe the key to making great products is for product engineering teams to be customer obsessed and capable of rapidly iterating using lean principles. A few of my accomplishments at previous roles: - At Fluidlogic, I reduced connect time on TypeScript and React Native mobile AI hydration app by 88% (from 12-15s to 2s), refactoring Bluetooth service (react-native-ble-plx) into state/reducer pattern, enhancing low-latency performance and UX. - At Best Buy, I spearheaded development for a new personalized homepage reaching 10M+ users monthly, creating TypeScript and Node.js orchestration layer to handle page layouts, and GraphQL, Java, and Spring Boot ML aggregation service. - At BallerTV, I led a team of 4 engineers to migrate critical Scorekeeper app used by 200K+ users to monitor livestreaming from native Objective-C to TypeScript and React Native, decoupling streaming services, and enabling app to be OS agnostic, eliminating logistics of shipping iPads to over 350K events nationwide ($50M savings in hardware costs). Even though I've been on hiatus from upwork for a few years. I have come back because the infrastructure I've iterated on and tools used to create production grade products at accelerated rates has increased tremendously. I'd like to be able to help make an impact to companies looking to drive there technology to a stable, performant system. Whether working independently or as part of a team, I am dedicated to delivering results that meet and exceed expectations. In my personal life, I enjoy playing the drums, reading science fiction, and staying active. My core competencies include TypeScript, React.js, React Native, Node.js, Next.js, C#, Unity, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Embedded Systems, and Container Orchestration. Note: If you only interested in my AI and ML capabilities, read this (otherwise please skip). You ask what I can do to improve and fix you're codebase? I have custom local agents and flows setup to handle these use cases as I have many times in the last 10+ years. Current technology has allowed me to further automated cleaning up legacy codebases to stable, performant, and modern tech stacks. The most important factor to me is still using reliable programming patterns that can handle users at scale. On top of this, I have ML experience setting up LLMs, etc. Feel free to ask me any questions :)