Elijah Kennedy

New York City
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SNAPSHOT
EXPERIENCE
Sabbatical
The Recurse Center — June 2024 - August 2024
  • Engineered performant 3D multiplayer game, audio engine for game in 5-person team, programmed OSC output interface
Senior Fullstack Engineer
TCARE — Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
  • Increased appointments by 30% and provided their first analytics source for no-shows by leading the design of and implementing a scheduling application using Svelte (TypeScript) and FastAPI (Python backend)
  • Scaled customer call rate by 250% by integrating and A/B testing a power dialer into call outreach program
  • Established 1st unified microservice downtime visibility and notification system to detect system failures in 100% of infra
  • Deployed unified customer SMS and email experience by engineering central comms microservice with Azure Service Bus
Head of Engineering
Compass — Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
  • Supported thousands of university students with tailored mental health recommendations by engineering a recommendation system using React, MongoDB aggregations, and HIPAA-compliant third party medical intake form Saas
  • Neutralized 90% of bugs by weaving monitoring system out of CloudWatch, Sentry, and Slack notifications
  • Achieved 9x faster page loads by managing porting of Django application to dockerized MERN stack by contractors
  • Achieved intelligent, humanlike mental health recommendations by iteratively engineering granular CMS configurations and CI/CD pipeline running on anonymized production data
  • Refactored authentication system to accept SAML, a key requirement for $55K contract with McGill University
  • Extended disaster recovery protection to auth management system by reprovisioning it with Terraform (IAC)
Python Developer
Dunavant — Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
  • Saved warehouse staff 1,000+ hours a year in repetitive labor by leading modernization of spreadsheet-based warehouse record-keeping processes through automation with Django (Python), Postgres, and Google APIs
Web Development Freelancer and Intern
Feb 2015 - Jan 2021
  • Built Shopify site with Liquid and automated vendor legitimacy vetting process for Wind River Tobacco
  • Adapted board game to web with matchmaking and real time move-synchronization using Firebase suite
  • Implementation of user sign-in frontend and profile page as intern at ThinkOfUs, foster care startup
EDUCATION
Harvard – Online
Computer Science for Web Programming, Nov 2021
  • Built Django/Stripe ecommerce website
  • Supported classmates with Python API design
VCU – Richmond, VA
Bachelor of Arts, Video Production and Animation, May 2016
  • Awarded Dean's grant to build team and develop urban exploration webapp
  • Created and directed narrative film production
  • Studied animation and visual storytelling