Ken Blizzard-Caron

I'm a dedicated Texas-based engineer. I have over 15 years of professional experience developing for the web. I'm also a husband, father, hobby coffee roaster, vegan, and slow runner. Contently employed at Indeed.

Technical Skills (Top 50)

• 11ty,
• Accessibility,
• Agile Methodologies,
• AI Prompt Engineering,
• Angular,
• Apollo,
• CI/CD,
• CSS 3,
• Docker,
• Emotion,
• Express,
• Figma/Lunacy,
• Gatsby,
• Git,
• Gitlab CI,
• GraphQL,
• HTML 5,
• Internationalization,
• Jamstack,
• JavaScript,
• Jenkins,
• Jest,
• Jira,
• Kubernetes,
• Laravel,
• Lunacy,
• Micro-frontends,
• Microservices,
• MongoDB,
• MySQL,
• Netlify,
• Nginx,
• NodeJS,
• PHP,
• React,
• React Testing Library,
• Redux,
• RWD,
• Screen Readers,
• Security,
• SEO,
• SourceGraph Cody AI,
• Tailwind,
• TypeScript,
• User Experience,
• WCAG,
• Web Components,
• Web Performance,
• Webpack,
• WordPress

Soft Skills

• Analysis,
• Empatathys,
• Experimentation,
• Flexibility,
• Growth Mindset,
• Leadership,
• Mentoring,
• Planning,
• Reliable,
• Team Management

Work Experience

• Indeed.com

  Senior UX Developer

  2022 - Present

  Mentored associate and mid-level engineers. Key engineer for launching Smart Sourcing, a new experience that matches job seekers with employers with AI technology. Currently working on high-profile company objectives within the Employer Journey organization for an exciting new experience. Leads a development team solving accessibility and UX remediation.

• Indeed.com

  UX Developer

  2019 - 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.

• PlumRiver LLC

  Front End Engineer

  2018 - 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.

• CenterStone Technologies, Inc.

  Web Development Engineer

  2014 - 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).

• Prior work

  Experience over a decade old available upon inquiry

  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.