Summary
Kevin Kelchen is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a strong frontend specialty, currently leading frontend efforts at OpenGov after a long tenure at Cartegraph. He brings full-stack fluency rooted in ASP.NET, C#, and modern JavaScript frameworks, with a history of building and evolving n-tier single-page applications. Kevin has progressed through roles from intern to staff engineer, showing steady technical growth and hands-on ownership of builds, installations, and complex UI work. Based in Dubuque, Iowa, he pairs practical Midwestern reliability with mentoring and team leadership across product lifecycles. An often-overlooked strength is his early caregiving and conservator experience, which cultivated resilience, meticulous documentation, and stakeholder communication that translate into dependable engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Loras College