Kimberly McDonell

Delivered Walmart+ benefits programs by gathering and refining technical requirements with stakeholders. Built turnkey solutions for content-driven page design with full unit and automation test coverage, improving accessibility and page performance.

Developed PWA apps for students and teachers using Next.js and React. Built reusable components, implemented student features (collaborative canvas and story feed management), and delivered Cypress-based unit/integration testing in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Partnered with the CTO and PM to translate requirements into actionable development tasks. Built a symptom analysis system using React, D3.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL, and created user behavior tracking tools with Ruby and JavaScript while improving code quality via performance tuning and refactoring.

Contributed to collision detection systems for embedded ML software. Developed web and mobile applications supporting IoT and industrial automation, resolving cross-browser/device compatibility issues and working across AI/ML, signal processing, and IoT workflows.

Built an NPM middleware package for microservices to enable diagnostics across databases and re-architected infrastructure with TypeScript for safer, scalable database handling. Optimized queries and routing to reduce rendering times by 80% and shipped an Electron app using IPC protocols, including code-splitting and data visualizations with D3.js and Plotly.js.

Built responsive web applications using AngularJS and jQuery and designed database schemas and queries to support application workflows. Implemented secure authentication workflows and supported UI/UX-focused development for functional web apps.

Developed responsive prototypes using AngularJS and jQuery and designed and implemented databases with PHP and SQL. Contributed to UI/UX and branding for functional web applications.

B.S. in Computer Science at California State University, Los Angeles from 2009 to 2013.