Kevin Buhmann

Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience leading engineering efforts in collaborative cross-functional teams, driving projects from initial planning through architecture, development, testing, and deployment.

Experience

Broadcom

• Established cross-functional review checkpoints with product designers to ensure consistency with the design system and reduce post-handoff work
• Led development of a condensed version of the design system documentation to provide authoritative and clear guidance for product designers and developers
• Technologies: Angular, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, TypeScript/JavaScript, WCAG, ARIA, Figma

VMware

• Led a team of engineers to develop a new design system website to improve discoverability of documentation and reduce friction in component testing and bug reproduction by adding "Open in StackBlitz" for examples
• Automated visual regression tests for all library components in all supported themes to prevent unintended visual changes and increase developer confidence
• Eliminated accessibility defects and implemented accessibility improvements in library components and documentation ensuring products can be used by all users
• Technologies: Angular, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, TypeScript/JavaScript, WCAG, ARIA, Figma

Vintage Software

• Led engineering for a large-scale web application (3.5+ million users and 100+ million page views per month) including the addition of an online marketplace platform
• Collaborated with product designers to adopt a consistent design system and improve the user experience of the web application
• Modernized large portions of the codebase using Angular, message-driven microservices, domain-driven design, automated testing, and SOLID principles
• Transformed the company's software development lifecycle by implementing a Git workflow to enable more fine-grained code reviews and adopting a DevOps culture by streamlining build processes and automating build pipelines
• Technologies: Angular, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, .NET/C#, SQL Server

MedAssets

Southeast Missouri State University