February 2024 – Present
Application Developer II
Arizona State University
Educational software, accessibility, AWS infrastructure and deployments, database migrations, and applied AI work.
About / Arizona
Hi, I’m Kevin.
I’m an Application Developer II at Arizona State University. I work on educational software and spend a lot of my time thinking about how people author, use, and learn from it.
I came to application development through quality assurance. That background shows up in the questions I ask: what happens when a request fails, what does a screen reader actually say, and can someone recover their work?
AWS / ETX Center at ASU
AWS deployments and database migrations
I led infrastructure consolidation, application deployments, and database migrations for ASU’s ETX Center. Most of the AWS implementation was my own work.
- Consolidated duplicate PostgreSQL databases and removed unused EC2 and networking resources, reducing infrastructure costs by 66%.
- Launched web applications with Amplify and Fargate for courses intended to reach tens of thousands of students.
- Migrated PostgreSQL databases across AWS accounts and moved a DigitalOcean application to DynamoDB, Cognito, and Amplify.
Outside work
Electronics, prints, and servers.
I’m learning C and embedded systems alongside hands-on electronics. I also work with 3D printing and run a home lab. Those projects bring a different set of questions from web development: wiring, measurements, physical parts, storage, and machines I have to maintain myself.
The Embedded Learning project describes the software I built around my C and ESP32 study.
Experience
Where I’ve worked
October 2021 – February 2024
Quality Assurance Engineer
Arizona State University
Product testing, accessibility validation, and release workflows.
May 2020 – November 2020
Technician I
Kyterion
Technical operations, troubleshooting, and customer support.
Education
Computer science at ASU
December 2025
Master of Computer Science
Arizona State University
December 2023
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Arizona State University
Certifications and short courses
- AWS Educate Machine Learning FoundationsAmazon Web Services · July 2025
- Introducing Generative AI with AWSUdacity · June 2025
- Introduction to Computer Vision and Image ProcessingIBM · May 2024
- Introduction to Deep Learning & Neural Networks with KerasIBM · March 2024
- Machine Learning with PythonCoursera · March 2024
- Tools for Data ScienceIBM · March 2024
- Introduction to Neural NetworksCoursera
- Full-Stack DevelopmentCodecademy