Kevin Marsh is a web developer from Toledo, OH with a focus on simplicity and usability, an eye for design, and insatiable curiosity.

Experience

2014–Present
Vintage Aerial
Co-Founder, Director of Engineering
  • Transformed a 50-year-old analog, door-to-door business into a digital one
  • Built workflows for scanning and geocoding millions of historic oblique and vertical aerial photos
  • Developed web-based GIS tools for geocoding photos from paper flight maps
  • Built a custom pipeline for mosaicking vertical aerial photos into seamless, georeferenced imagery
  • Designed, built, and maintain an e-commerce and social platform in Ruby on Rails
2022–Present
Redsson
Fractional CTO
  • Sole technical lead, responsible for all software, infrastructure, and security
  • Build and maintain the Ruby on Rails applications that run day-to-day operations, working directly with the owner and operations lead
  • Implemented and maintain SOC 2 compliance
2014–Present
Freelance Developer

Some of the projects I've built as an independent developer in the past few years are a:

  • Conference management app for a worldwide conference hosted by a local university (Ruby on Rails)
  • App to track students and their progress with a tutor for a local non-profit (Ruby on Rails)
  • Policy calculator and payment portal for a large wholesale insurance company (Ruby on Rails, front-end and back-end)
  • Safety inspection app for a Fortune 500 hotel chain (Laravel, front-end and back-end)
2018–2020
Kinship
Co-Founder

Started a digital agency to bring together 4 local developers where we helped clients ship ideas like a(n):

  • Social app to drive learning engagement for a Fortune 100 airline (React Native, GraphQL API in Laravel)
  • App for an airport lounge sharing startup (React Native, GraphQL API in Ruby on Rails)
  • App for a photographer marketplace (React Native, GraphQL API in Ruby on Rails)
  • API to connect legacy parking ticket and billing system to new GraphQL-based front-end (Ruby on Rails)
  • App to manage document workflows and billing for a real estate acquisition firm (Ruby on Rails)
2012–2014
Bloomberg L.P.
Senior Web Developer, Bloomberg.com
  • Led team with technical direction and process, including code reviews and pair programming
  • Architected new front-end Rails 4 app and led transition from legacy Rails 2 app
  • Held training talks and seminars
2010–2012
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Senior Developer, Partner
  • Developed & designed e-commerce solutions for imaging- & print-related products
  • Led team of Rails developers with Agile methodologies
  • Solution development and proposal writing
2005–2010
SFC Graphics
IT Manager, Senior Developer
  • Responsible for all aspects of IT in organization (hardware, software, & network)
  • Developed in-house ERP system in Ruby on Rails that has been in use for over 13 years
  • Built tools for on-demand ordering and just-in-time manufacturing of customized print products from cart to PDF generation to shipping automation
2001–2004
SongMeanings
Co-Founder
  • Started lyric & interpretation site in high school to learn PHP and MySQL
  • Grew to 1M uniques/month

Education

2003–2007
University of Toledo
Studied Computer Science and Engineering

Buzzwords

I believe in picking the right tool for the job, here's some of what's in my toolbox:

  • AI / LLMs
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • CSS
  • Data Visualization
  • Docker
  • Figma
  • GIS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Kubernetes
  • Photoshop
  • Python
  • React / React Native
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Shell Scripting (Bash/zsh)
  • SQL
  • Tailwind