Hello,
I'm Kaylie.
I'm a Software Engineer with a unique blend of full-stack engineering and UX/UI design expertise, bridging the gap between designers and engineers.
My Journey
I graduated from Ball State University cum laude in 2018 with a major in Journalism Graphics (graphic & UX/UI design + front-end development) and a minor in Digital Publishing (printing). During my time at Ball State, I completed two graphic design internships and held two part-time graphic design jobs. Additionally, I took on freelance design work and two community projects with my journalism department peers.
My interest in coding was ignited my freshman year when I was introduced to HTML and CSS in a course required for my major. I was immediately fascinated with coding and driven to explore it further. The following year, I took two computer science courses, completing projects with Java and Python. During my junior and senior years, HTML, CSS and JavaScript were the focus of several courses required for the Journalism Graphics major.
I started my career as a graphic designer while utilizing my journalism training to tackle a variety of marketing tasks. My interest in coding and my aspiration to work in the tech industry, sparked during my college years, lingered. I came to the realization that tech was where I wanted to be and I would need further education to follow that path. I graduated from Eleven Fifty Academy’s (now known as Blaizing Academy) Web Development program in 2020.
Since Eleven Fifty, I have held roles as UI/UX Developer, Software Engineer, Angular Developer, and Design Engineer. My passion lies in building innovative, effective and impactful software that solves problems while improving the lives of end users.
My Skills
As a versatile software engineer who is equally as adept at design as engineering, my skillset spans the entire process of building software. I like to group my skills into three categories: Ideate, Design and Build.
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Ideate
Determine solutions to a problem by gathering pertinent information, receiving user/stakeholder input, conducting adequate research, and participation in or ownership of ideation/discovery.
User Advocacy User Research User Flows & User Personas Information Architecture UX Writing Mastery of UX “Laws” & Best Practices Keen Understanding of HCI and Psychology Design
Bring the findings of the discovery/ideation phase to fruition in wireframes, mockups and prototypes in addition to creating or optimizing any visuals required for the design.
Visual Design Data Visualization Design Technologies Expert (Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and more) Wireframes & Prototypes High-Fidelity Mockups Design Systems Style Guides, Color Palettes, Typography Performance + Rendering Optimization of Visuals (incl. graphics, photos & videos) Build
Translate mockups into a fully-functional, pixel-perfect user interface that requests and displays applicable data. Establish communication between the front-end and back-end via APIs. Properly handle then return the data requested by the front-end inside the back-end application, querying the database.
JavaScript & TypeScript HTML 5 & CSS 3 JS Frameworks & Libraries: Angular 19, React 19, Next.js 15, Ember.js 6 & 7 Node.js & Node.js frameworks (Express.js) C# & ASP.NET Core APIS: REST, GraphQL Relational Databases: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server NoSQL Databases: CosmosDB Query Languages: SQL, GraphQL Reactive Programming: RxJS State Management: Redux, NgRx CSS Frameworks & Libraries: JSS, Tailwind, Bootstrap CSS Preprocessors (Sass) Animation Libraries: Framer Motion Charting Libraries: chart.js, D3.js, ngx-charts Component Libraries: Material-UI, PrimeNG, Bootstrap Responsive Design & Cross Browser Compatibility Section 508 / WCAG 2.2 compliance Integration & Unit Testing (Jest, Jasmine + Karma, QUnit) CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions Version Control: Git & GitHub Bitbucket, Jira, Azure DevOps Visual Studio & VS Code Agile Methodologies My Certifications
