Kevin Shreve

Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Staff-level software engineer with 10+ years building full-stack products end-to-end in TypeScript. Comfortable across the whole stack — React/Next.js on the front end, Node and Python/Django on the back end, Postgres for data — with a track record of leading platform migrations, owning features from design through production, and mentoring junior engineers. Most recently shipping production AI features (RAG, embeddings, LLM tool-use agents) into real product workflows.

Key Technologies

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript (ES2015+), Python, HTML5, CSS/Sass
Frontend: React, Next.js (App Router, SSR, ISR, SWR), Tailwind CSS, styled-components, React Native
Backend: Node.js, Next.js API routes / Server Actions, Python/Django (models, migrations, REST endpoints, admin), REST APIs, WebSockets, Sequelize
Data: Postgres + pgvector, SQL Server, MongoDB
Deployment & Infra: Vercel (Functions, deployments, environment management), Docker, AWS, Buildkite
AI & LLMs: OpenAI (GPT-4 / 4o / o1, embeddings), Vercel AI SDK, tool use / function calling, agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, Claude Code, Warp
Tooling & Testing: Git, Cypress, Webpack, JIRA

Experience

First Harmonic, Generative AI Engineer

Remote · January 2025 – Present · 1.5 yrs

Sole AI engineer, owning the entire product loop end-to-end in TypeScript — prompt engineering, retrieval, React/Next.js UI, and Vercel deployment — with no dedicated PM or DevOps support.
Cut internal research time by giving the team a self-serve Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chat application for internal knowledge Q&A and external-source research, built on OpenAI GPT-4/4o, OpenAI embeddings, and pgvector on Postgres.
Made deal meetings faster and more focused by building a custom rubric scoring system (structured LLM outputs) that lets the team score deals async ahead of time — so discussions start from shared, pre-computed signal instead of raw unstructured inputs.
Accelerated deal review by building a custom note-taking application with tool-calling agents that reconcile deal context across Attio (CRM) and Circleback (meeting transcripts).
Shipped streaming chat surfaces with the Vercel AI SDK (streamText, generateObject, tool calling) on Vercel Functions, owning the full pipeline from preview deployments and environment management through production rollout.
Use Claude Code and Warp daily for agentic feature scaffolding and AI-generated tests / bug repros — reviewing and refactoring AI-assisted output to keep the codebase maintainable rather than letting generated code accumulate unchecked.

Caesars Digital, Staff Software Engineer

Remote · April 2022 – January 2025 · 2.5 yrs

Owned the betslip in a React + TypeScript / Redux-Saga codebase, refactoring it to support a wide variety of bet types in a high-traffic, highly regulated environment.
Shipped wager-to-win and quick-bet features, cutting time-to-place-bet by ~3 seconds and reducing clicks from 7 to 4.
Led the cross-platform mobile migration from Cordova to Capacitor.
Configured jurisdiction rollouts (Kentucky, D.C., Mississippi) behind feature flags with automated test coverage.
Introduced Tailwind into the company design system; upheld standards within the redux-saga toolkit.

Yello (WayUp), Staff Software Engineer

Remote · November 2017 – January 2024 · 6 yrs

Led the frontend platform migration from legacy AngularJS to SSR React, substantially improving TTFB and FCP.
Stood up the Next.js platform that still powers production today.
Unified 13 separate platform navigation bars into one consistent cross-product navigation.
Built and maintained backend Python/Django services alongside the frontend — data models, migrations, REST endpoints, and Django admin tooling for internal CRUD workflows.
Built shared bit.cloud components and DX tooling for production-parity local environments.
Mentored an offshore team of 8 engineers to ensure delivery quality and unblock execution.

Earlier Experience

FlashRecruit, Senior Software Engineer · Remote · Aug 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr
Real-time WebSocket chat connecting candidates and recruiters; shipped iOS and Android apps in React Native.
Trinity Health (Sr. Software Engineer) · MeridianRx (Sr. Software Engineer) · Optum (Sr. JavaScript Developer) — MI · Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1.5 yrs
Consecutive contract-length engagements building React / EmberJS / AngularJS applications (bad-debt recovery, patient-cost analytics, greenfield ES6/React, AEM6 integration).
Urban Science, Associate Software Developer · Detroit, MI · Jun 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2.5 yrs
Full-stack web work (HTML/JS/CSS/C#); built AJAX criteria tooling for Hyundai Motors.
Sircon, a Vertafore Business, Software Development Intern · Okemos, MI · Oct 2011 – Mar 2012 · 6 months

Education

B.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 3.59 GPA · 3.51 Technical GPA