Hello, I’m

Kevin
Murphy

Front-end React Specialist

About Me

About Me

Kevin Murphy

Front-end React Specialist

Kevin is a modern front-end focused full-stack developer. He focuses on ReactJS and AWS with professional experience since 2015 in areas of instant payments, tax payments, banking, gov. contracts, higher ed., and healthcare. He writes clean, testable code to make apps look and feel top-notch by providing intuitive UX and innovation through managing async data flows, UI interactions and cloud microservices. With a foundation in fluid skills from Anthropology and crystalized skills in front-end focused full-stack development, he intersects human-centricity and digital engineering to excel at disruptive first-to-market innovation. His questions bring diverse perspective, and his modern solutions bring new pathways. This yields unique deliverables you won't find from anyone else.

  • Born:July, 1992
  • From:Tempe, AZ
  • Inspired by:Jimi Hendrix and Larry Page

Skills

Skills

Kevin's skill set is well-rounded

Emphasizing a learn quick always-a-student mentality, Kevin's done tasks at all parts of an app's end-to-end life cycle with an ever-growing skill set. His role has been everything from tech architect to client liaison. His advice and code commits guide clients including the Federal Reserve, IRS, and ASU on what digital solution is best for their needs. He's proud of his production code contributions because he's helped move millions of dollars daily and improve lives. He stands by the quality of his deliverables and the impact they have at a local and national level.

Frontend

  • HTML / CSS
  • JS / TS
  • ReactJS
  • React Native
  • Redux / Context
  • NextJS
  • TailwindCSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • React Hooks

Backend

  • NodeJS
  • AWS - IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, EC2, AppSync, Billing...
  • Express
  • Salesforce

AI/ML

  • AWS - Bedrock, SageMaker
  • TensorFlow
  • Prompt generation
  • Cursor

Misc

  • Git
  • Agile / Scrum
  • CI/CD

Resume

Resume

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Education

Certifications

AWS

  • AWS Developer Associate - expires 11/18/2026

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate - expires 5/5/2028

Coding Bootcamp

July 2018

Thinkful - Full-stack Engineering

  • HTML / CSS / JS

  • React

  • NodeJS

  • Express

  • MongoDB

  • Data structures and algorithms

  • Responsive design

  • Test driven development

  • A11y

  • Agile & Scrum

  • Git

  • DevOps

Web Development Internship

June 2015

Smithsonian Institution

  • WordPress

BA, Anthropology

May 2014

University of Vermont

  • Ethnographic research

  • Surveys

  • Case studies

  • Written reports

  • Study abroad in Nepal

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Experience

Senior Front-end React Specialist

June 2021 - present

Deloitte

  • State of Michigan Unemployment Insurance - Led development for an internal app, facilitating unemployment insurance for 270,000 Michiganders (State of Michigan, MIUI | ReactJS, .net)

  • IRS - Led development on a web app, modernizing tax payment UX for 880.9M visits and supporting $4.7T in tax collection for FY 2023 (IRS.gov | ReactJS, TS)

  • Federal Reserve - Led development for an onboarding app, reducing time to onboard banks to a new instant payment system from 60 to 7 days for 1,000+ banks as of Oct 2024 (FedNow | LWC, Salesforce)

  • Welcome Pamphlet - Led development on an onboarding pamphlet app to bolster professional brand and increase new hire experience for dozens of new hires (NextJS, TailwindCSS | ReactJS)

  • Coach - Coached 7 junior/mid consultants, directly increasing a team member's utilization from 40% to 95% while on PIP (Internal Team | leadership skills)

Senior Full-stack Developer

August 2018 - June 2021

Arizona State University

  • ASU Mobile App - Led development on a mobile app, enhancing engagement for 58K+ weekly users with features such as geo-location enabled events and instant chat (React Native, AWS)

  • Sunny Chatbot Dashboard - Led development for the university's chatbot on platforms including SMS, web, and mobile communication, saving $1M+ per year (ReactJS, AWS)

  • Football Stadium IoT - Engineered and launched IoT features for a football stadium scoreboard, enhancing game day for 50K+ fans in a noise competition and real-time celebrity/fan face matching (IoT Projects | Angular, AWS)

My Professional Website

August 2015 - present

Freelance

  • Portfolio/Blog Website - Built custom portfolio/blog website showcasing over a decade of experience using visually striking CSS (NextJS, TailwindCSS, shadcn/ui, Netlify | ReactJS)

Freelance Full-Stack Developer

June 2015 - June 2021

Culmination Media LLC

  • Healing Foundations Counseling - Delivered a mobile app, improving engagement for 40+ therapy patients with check-ins, article feeds, and check-in data visualization (React Native, AWS)

  • Wellness Hub - Delivered a web/mobile app, cutting client onboarding time by 75% and boosting patient check-in engagement (ReactJS, React Native, AWS)

  • Gov. Financial Analytics - Delivered a tablet-first app for gov. contract analysis, improving bid decisions on $760B+ worth of contracts awarded per year to 78K+ businesses (2023) (React Native, AWS)

  • IPRA Foundation - Delivered a redesign of a WordPress site to streamline grant allocation for 50+ recipients per year (WordPress, Photoshop)

Web Development Intern

June 2015 - Aug 2015

Smithsonian Institution

  • Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage - Delivered 800+ musician bios for a WordPress site, improving user and artist engagement through profile picture creation, music descriptions and sample audio (Folkways Records | WordPress, Photoshop)

Portfolio

Portfolio

FedNow (internal web app)
FedNow (internal web app)

LWC / Salesforce

irs.gov (payments feature)
irs.gov (payments feature)

ReactJS

ASU Mobile App
ASU Mobile App

React Native / AWS

ASU Chatbot Dashboard
ASU Chatbot Dashboard

ReactJS / AWS

ASU Football Stadium IoT
ASU Football Stadium IoT

Angular / AWS

Wellness Hub Recovery
Wellness Hub Recovery

ReactJS / AWS

Blog

Blog