# Kevin Joseph — Frontend Engineer

## Skills
- Angular: 7 years
- TypeScript: 7 years
- JavaScript: 7 years
- RxJS: 7 years
- HTML / SCSS: 7 years
- Nx: 4 years

## Tools
Jest / Jasmine, Storybook, Nx Monorepo, SonarQube, PostgreSQL, SignalR, Datadog, CI/CD Pipelines

## Experience
2020 — Present: Application Engineer at Banner Life Insurance
  Built the Horizon component library (50+ components) and four micro-libraries for auth, error handling, metrics, and real-time communication via SignalR. Co-led migration to an Nx monorepo and from Karma/Jasmine to Jest. Engineered the Skyline customer portal in Angular/NgRx for full-lifecycle policy management.

2018 — 2020: Associate Application Engineer at Banner Life Insurance
  Led frontend development of a rules-driven Angular app replacing a paper-based insurance process — instant decision rates from under 4% to 46%, exam-free applications from 0% to 80%. Built the Application Manager dashboard, cutting underwriting cycle time from 50+ days to ~11 days.

2017 — 2018: Member Technical Staff at Zoho Corp.
  Spearheaded early data modeling for Zoho Contract Management using PostgreSQL, reducing data redundancy by 20%. Collaborated in a 13-member team implementing backend APIs using PostgreSQL, Java, and an internal Zoho framework.

## Projects
### Horizon Component Library (Angular / Storybook)
Co-founded and grew a shared Angular component library to 50+ reusable components adopted across all Horizon applications, fully documented in Storybook.
Tags: Angular, TypeScript, Storybook, SCSS

### Skyline Customer Portal (Angular / NgRx)
Engineered a full-lifecycle customer portal enabling policyholders to manage applications mid-journey and monitor payments, targeting 25% adoption by end of 2026.
Tags: Angular, NgRx, RxJS, TypeScript

### Online Application System (Angular / NgRx)
Led frontend development replacing a paper-based life insurance process — instant decision rates jumped from under 4% to 46%, exam-free applications from 0% to 80%.
Tags: Angular, NgRx, TypeScript, SCSS

### Application Manager (Angular / TypeScript)
Built an internal dashboard enabling underwriters to manage assigned cases and auto-generated tasks, cutting the average underwriting cycle from 50+ days to ~11 days.
Tags: Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, REST API