Ken Blizzard-Caron

Software Engineer
Denver Metropolitan Area
ken@blizzardcaron.com | kenblizzardcaron.com

I’m a dedicated Colorado-based engineer. I have over 15 years of professional experience developing for the web, with a lean towards front end. I’m also a husband, father, hobby coffee roaster, vegan, and slow runner. Contently employed at Indeed.

Technical Skills

Accessibility, Agentic AI / Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Copilot, Agile Methodologies, Angular, Apollo, AWS, CI/CD, CSS 3, Design Systems, Docker, Emotion, Express, Figma/Lunacy, Git, Gitlab CI, GraphQL, HTML 5, Internationalization, JavaScript, Jest, Jira, Jotai, Kubernetes, LangChain, Micro-frontends, Microservices, MongoDB, MySQL, Next.js, NodeJS, PHP, Playwright, Prompt Engineering, Python, PyTorch, React Testing Library, React, RWD, Screen Readers, Security, SEO, Storybook, Tailwind, TypeScript, User Experience, Vite, WCAG, Web Components, Web Performance, Webpack

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer - Indeed

Jul 2025 - Present
Building Indeed’s Sourcing Assistant, an AI-powered feature that finds, engages, and delivers quality applicants faster — across the agentic experiences and micro-frontends that deliver it.

Senior UX Developer - Indeed

Jan 2022 - Jul 2025
Mentored associate and mid-level engineers. Key engineer for launching Smart Sourcing, a new experience that matches job seekers with employers with AI technology. Worked on Talent Scout within the Employer Journey organization. Led a development team solving accessibility and UX remediation.

UX Developer - Indeed

Sep 2019 - Jan 2022
The world’s most popular job site. Increased hire signals for employers that manage job listings. Led migration of making our enterprise web application follow RWD (Responsive Web Design) principles and be accessible for all. Led development of an Employer Reputation dashboard, empowering best practices and open communication between job seekers and employers.

Front End Engineer - PlumRiver LLC

Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Ecommerce B2B that acquired CenterStoneTechnologies in the athletic apparel industry with many high profile clients including Volcom, Puma, and Timberland. Successfully engineered merging of the CenterStone iVendix platform with the React-based Elastic Suite platform.

Web Development Engineer - CenterStone Technologies, Inc.

Oct 2014 - Nov 2018
Successful Enterprise ecommerce B2B in the athletic apparel industry with many high profile clients including New Balance, Patagonia, and The North Face. Led full-stack migration of a legacy ColdFusion web application to a MEAN (Mongo/Express/Angular/Node) SPA (Single Page Application).

Available upon inquiry - Prior work

2009 - 2014
This experience represents the start of my career out of college. Begins with my experience at a small indie game company, to my pivot into web in the Boulder tech startup scene. Companies include a genealogy search engine: Mocavo, a non-profit charity platform: Giveo, and an advertising agency: rabble+rouser.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree: Electronic Game & Interactive Development
  Champlain College (2005 - 2009)
  Burlington, VT

Certifications

• Web Accessibility Specialist ⧉
  International Association of Accessibility Professionals (2023, renewed 2026)
• Nanodegree: Indeed AI Upskilling for Software Engineers
  Udacity (2025)
• Professional Certificate: C++
  Champlain College (2009)

↓ PDF resume  ·  ↓ Markdown resume

This post is a bit meta — I’m going to walk through how I built this site and the thinking behind it. The main thing I wanted to solve was keeping my web resume and a print-friendly PDF in sync without maintaining two separate versions of everything.

One source of truth

All my resume and site content lives in the _data directory. The main file is _data/author.json, where I keep my name, title, skills, work history, education, certifications, and so on. Both the site’s Nunjucks templates and the generated resume markdown pull from this data, so when I update something, I only have to do it in one place. No copy-pasting, no wondering which version is current.

Web and print from the same content

Here’s how the three outputs come together:

1. Website — The site is a WebTUI terminal interface built by 11ty. The Resume tab renders a Nunjucks partial, _includes/partials/resume-body.njk, directly from author.json; the same partial backs /resume.html, so the two HTML views can’t drift apart.

2. Markdown resume — I have a file called resume.txt.njk (with permalink: /resume.md) that uses the same author data to output a single markdown file at /resume.md. That’s what you see linked as “↓ Markdown resume” in the Resume tab.

3. PDF resume — After the site builds, a script called generate-pdf.js kicks in. It reads the built _site/resume.md, converts it to HTML with markdown-it, and then uses Puppeteer to print that HTML to a PDF (with some print-specific CSS for page breaks and layout). The end result is a PDF that’s always generated from the same markdown, which came from the same author.json. On Netlify, the build command handles all of this — Puppeteer/Headless Chrome runs as part of the deploy, so both the site and the PDF stay up to date automatically.

So the full flow looks like: author data → Nunjucks (site + resume.md) → markdown-it + Puppeteer → PDF. One source of truth, web and print always in sync.

Tech stack (brief overview)

Here’s a quick rundown of what I’m using:

• 11ty (Eleventy) — Static site generator. Takes Nunjucks templates, Markdown, and JSON data as input and outputs HTML (plus the markdown file used for the PDF).
• Nunjucks — Templating for all layouts and partials. Data from author.json flows through Nunjucks into every page.
• WebTUI — CSS framework that gives this interface its terminal aesthetic. Handles theming, components, and the dark colour scheme.
• Three.js + AsciiEffect — Powers the Cube World Demo. Three.js renders the 3D cube world; the AsciiEffect addon converts each frame into coloured ASCII characters for the terminal look.
• markdown-it — Used inside generate-pdf.js to convert the resume markdown into HTML before Puppeteer gets involved.
• Puppeteer — Headless Chrome that renders the HTML and generates the final PDF. Netlify installs Chrome at build time and runs the script as part of npm run build.
• Netlify — Hosting and CI. Every deploy runs the 11ty build followed by the PDF script, so everything stays current.

Scratch Pad

The Scratch pad is a catch-all for things that don’t belong on a resume. It’s where I put hobby projects, experiments, and personal logs — anything I want a persistent home for but that isn’t professional work. That includes things like interactive canvas demos, coffee roast logs from my Aillio Bullet, and whatever else I’m tinkering with at a given moment.

Watch faces I've written for the Ollee Watch's Forge platform. Try each one on the watch here before you upload it.

Rep Ladder

Progression coach for counted or timed exercises: paced sets with beeps and a countdown to the next set (or through a hold), with five slots where you pick reps or a hold and the last level, and a computed ladder offers a small step up after each session.

Open Rep Ladder

Multitimer

Feature-parity replacement for the official TIMER face, with up to three timers running at once.

Open Multitimer

fastzone

Intermittent fasting timer: start or end a fast now or backdated, count down to a whole-hour goal (16:8, 18:6, 23:1…) through five fasting zones, one beep at the goal, and stats for the week, streak, average, longest and the last 30 fasts.

Open fastzone

Hosted Forge emulator

Ollee's full Forge emulator with every face preloaded, for a bigger screen and the Bluetooth panel.

Open the hosted Forge emulator ⧉

Super FreeOllee

A self-contained Android companion app that pushes dynamic data (like temperature, sunrise/sunset, step count, and notification counts) to an Ollee BLE watch via Bluetooth Low Energy.

Open FreeOllee-Faces on GitHub ⧉

Gadgetbridge

Free and open source Android app for managing smart watches, bands, and headphones without the vendor app or a cloud account. I've had 4 pull requests merged upstream: Ollee Watch One support, plus interval timer and world clocks for the Casio GBD-200.

Open Gadgetbridge ⧉

Work-in-progress experiments — unpolished, just for fun.

Storytime

Public domain stories read aloud in rapid serial visual presentation — one word at a time, rendered as ASCII art. Voice and display stay in sync via Web Speech API word events.

Open Storytime

Roast Log

ASCII roast profile charts from an Aillio Bullet R2 session — temperature curves and rate-of-rise visualized with asciichart.

Open Roast Log

Step Calculator

Track steps toward your daily goal — remaining steps, halfway point, distance in miles, and time to finish based on your cadence.

Open Step Calculator

BOINC Log

Paused indefinitely. The Pi used to run BOINC workunits for science projects, and a local Qwen model wrote a daily summary of each day's work. It's now headed to the garage as a coffee-roasting assistant running Artisan for an Aillio Bullet. The log stays up as an archive.

Open BOINC Log