Kelly Joseph Price

Employment

Frontend Engineer ReadMe Inc. November 2020 November 2025

A developer dashboard for API documentation

• Designed and implemented a WYSIWYG Markdown editor built on Slate.js used by thousands of developers to author technical documentation.
• Led technical decisions on migrating 10 million existing Markdown documents to MDX for improved customizability and interactivity.
• Developed a dashboard for users to create custom MDX components.
• Built React components for a documentation linter backed by an LLM service to detect and correct content issues.
• Mentored and onboarded new frontend engineers, improving the scope of work they could take on.

Software Developer Collaborative Drug Discovery October 2015 October 2020

A database for clinical drug discovery laboratories

• Developed a rich text editor with support for chemical structures and reactions to help users meet compliance regulations.
• Led migration of full-text search system from Solr to Elasticsearch, improving query speed and relevance.
• Upgraded the main application from Rails 2 to 5.
• Developed a PDF export feature using AWS Lambda and Puppeteer which was also an opportunity for our team to experiment with serverless architecture.
• Mentored and onboarded new frontend engineers, improving ramp-up time and code quality.

Freelance Software Developer Live Data February 2019 March 2019

Continuously updated dataset of people's employment

• Designed and implemented a Salesforce integration for Live Data's API.

Freelance Software Developer Ballot Ready September 2015 October 2015

Non-partisan election info and ballot preparation tool

• Delivered the MVP in time for the 2015 local elections.
• Built a CSV import wizard for volunteer data entry and classification.

Ruby on Rails Developer International Technological University January 2015 September 2015

Private university with in-house Educational Management System

• Created an application to reference and export archived transcripts.
• Implemented product features for the internal course management system.
• Mentored and onboarded new developers and interns.

Associate Software Engineer Barracuda Networks February 2013 May 2014

Security, network, and storage products for on premise or cloud

• Rewrote and modernized the install scripts for their custom Linux OS.
• Developed a curses application to assist hardware QA when verifying SSD lifespans.
• Configured Linux builds for changing hardware configurations.

Software Engineering Intern Barracuda Networks July 2012 February 2013

Security, network, and storage products for on premise or cloud

• Implemented initramfs system for automatically partitioning disks to support physical and virtual storage changes.
• Implemented support for HyperV as a platform for their custom VM applications.

Production Roaster Barefoot Coffee Roasters January 2011 July 2012

Artisan coffee roastery

• Created and managed roasting schedules to meet production goals.
• Operated and maintained commercial coffee roasting equipment.
• Regularly cupped coffee to ensure quality standards and assist with buying decisions