Beyond
Vibe Coding

I'm Joshua Kessell — six years of enterprise Java/Spring and React/TypeScript, now shipping production software solo with AI-assisted workflows.

Experience is the difference between generating code and engineering software. I bring both.

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1 year independent
full products
shipped solo
6+
Years Enterprise Dev
4
Industries Served
200+
Daily Users Supported
50%
Faster Peak-Hour Check-Ins
The Flagship

One project. Full production value.

Client Product · Private Codebase
The Check-In,
Reinvented.

A member check-in platform for a private club chain. Scan a license, sync with Square, done in seconds — not keystrokes. Delivered end to end: peak-hour check-in time down 50%, three minutes saved on every visit.

TypeScriptNext.jsPostgreSQLSquare APIBarcode Scanning
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Track Record

Enterprise Foundations

2025—NOW

Independent Product Engineer

AI-assisted full-stack development

Full production applications designed, built, and shipped solo — including a client check-in platform delivered from scoping through deployment, cutting peak-hour check-in time 50% — using AI coding agents held to enterprise engineering standards.

2022—2025

Android / Java Developer

United Airlines · via TEKsystems

Luggage-tracking apps used by 200+ airport staff daily; Spring Boot REST APIs streaming real-time status; PIN-based SSO cutting login time 50%. Mentored junior developers across TEKsystems client engagements.

2021—2022

Backend Java Developer

GM / OnStar

Spring Boot product-fulfillment API processing hundreds of orders per day; Kafka messaging pipeline at 99.9% delivery reliability.

2019—2021

Angular Dev · Automation Engineer

Relias Healthcare · Perspecta

HIPAA-compliant .NET-to-Angular 10 migration with 50% faster loads; Ansible automation for AWS GovCloud cutting provisioning from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

EDUCATION

Education & Certifications

University of Texas at Austin · SMU · University of Phoenix

Post Graduate Program, Generative AI for Business Applications, UT Austin, 4.33 GPA (May 2026) verify credential ↗ · AI on Cloud & Introduction to SQL with MySQL certifications (May 2026) · Full-Stack Web Development Certificate, SMU (2018) · BA, Computer Science, University of Phoenix (in progress).