Kevin Newman

Full Stack Developer · Remote · Canada

kevinnewman.ca · linkedin.com/in/helloooonewman · github.com/HellooooNewman

Payments and billing on the web, field-tech apps on mobile, and the odd Nintendo 64 game.

Let's work together↓ Résumé

Introduction

I'm a full stack developer with 10+ years of experience shipping software, from payment platforms and customer portals to 3D marketing apps and hybrid mobile products.

Away from work I'm a game jam regular, always tinkering on a side project (and playing too much Age of Empires II: DE).

Work

Sonar SoftwareSoftware Engineer → Senior Software Engineer · Full-timeJan 2021 – PresentRemote

Three products over five years: the field-tech mobile app, payments and billing on the core platform, and the customer portal.

Mobile: Field Tech

  • Sole developer of the app ISP installers use to manage jobs, tickets and inventory
  • Built its offline sync so technicians keep working without a connection
  • Rebuilt it from Flutter in React Native and TypeScript, and now building white-label versions on the same codebase
  • Shipped card scanning for on-site payments, signed contracts, iOS Live Activities and the mobile CI/CD pipeline

Core Platform

  • Co-built SonarPay's disbursements, disputes, card verification and refunds on Payrix with one other developer, starting on the front end and now working full stack
  • Built flexible 30-day billing with proration alongside the same developer, released behind feature flags
  • Built Print-to-Mail with another developer, one of a set of white-label add-ons like SMS that customers can turn on à la carte
  • Split 35+ global frontend services into explicit imports, fixing circular dependencies and webpack memory issues
  • Built an AST-based code generator for type-safe enums used across the codebase

Customer Portal

  • Rebuilt the subscriber payment flow with auto-pay and multi-currency, and now rebuilding the rest of the portal

TS, Vue, PHP, Laravel, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Flutter/Dart, Riverpod, Drift/SQLite, React Native, Redux Toolkit, Apollo, Auth0, Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Fastlane, Docker

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XelloFull Stack Web Developer · Full-timeJan 2019 – Jan 2021Toronto, CA
  • Maintained and evolved a micro-frontend shell application orchestrating web-component-based modules
  • Migrated legacy AngularJS components, services, and unit tests to Angular and Jest
  • Localized the product for the UK market, adapting flows to a different school system
  • Improved performance of existing SQL queries and authored new stored procedures

TS, SCSS, Angular, NgRx, RxJS, .NET, SQL, Slack API, Jest, Jenkins, Octopus, Azure

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WuzzalsFull Stack Web Developer · ContractOct 2018 – Jan 2020Toronto, CA
  • Sole developer maintaining and extending the Laravel + Vue platform for a personalized children's-book company
  • Automated the book-cover creation pipeline with Photoshop Action scripts and dynamic image resizing
  • Refactored components for reusability and improved site-wide performance and design
  • Launched comic books as a new product line and introduced a Trello workflow adopted company-wide
  • Managed support for users, writers, artists, and teachers

Laravel, Vue, Photoshop scripting

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TrailerworksFull Stack Web Developer · ContractAug 2018 – Jan 2019Toronto, CA
  • Built the company's interim and final marketing sites in React
  • Wrote technical estimates for client RFPs
  • Managed the existing Magento e-commerce store
  • Launched a Shopify storefront for honey produced on site

React, Magento, Shopify

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GrassriotsFull Stack Web Developer · ContractMar 2018 – Jul 2018Toronto, CA
  • Cut campaign delivery time from over a month to about ten days by streamlining the development workflow
  • Rebuilt the Webpack configuration, improving build reliability, performance, and developer speed
  • Added multilingual support with languages easy to add or remove
  • Modernized the codebase from ES5 prototypes to ES6 classes
  • Delivered campaigns for UNICEF Canada, World Vision, Ecojustice, and Cystic Fibrosis Canada

JS (ES6), Webpack, Babel

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GEFrontend Developer · ContractOct 2017 – Feb 2018Markham, CA
  • Built interactive 3D marketing apps in Babylon.js for GE Healthcare, Energy, and Grid Solutions
  • Prototyped and benchmarked modern frontend frameworks against GE's in-house Haxe stack to guide platform decisions
  • Rebuilt a Flash-based conference showcase as an HTML5 Vue app shipping to web and desktop (Electron) with offline storage

Babylon.js, Vue, Electron, Haxe

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IndegeneFrontend Developer · Full-timeFeb 2017 – Oct 2017Oakville, CA
  • Developed Angular 2 components and themed an Ionic 3 hybrid web/Android app for the pharma industry
  • Designed backend microservices in collaboration with the Java Spring team
  • Implemented Redux state management and custom offline state handling for Android
  • Internationalized the app and maintained support down to Android 3.0 tablets
  • Interviewed and onboarded new hires

Angular 2, Ionic 3, Redux, Java Spring

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Digital EchidnaFull Stack Web Developer · Full-timeFeb 2015 – Feb 2017London, CA
  • Delivered front-end themes and custom back-end modules across Drupal client sites
  • Built Python scrapers for content migration and maintained a CodeIgniter application
  • Represented the company at Drupal 8 code sprints in Ohio and Toronto
  • Built sites to meet AODA accessibility standards
  • Onboarded co-ops, interns, and new hires

Drupal 7/8, PHP, Python, CodeIgniter

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ProjectsView all →

In development

Reality64

A cross-platform desktop editor and engine for making real Nintendo 64 games: author scenes, cutscenes, and UI on PC, then build a .z64 ROM that runs in an emulator or on original hardware.

Early access

CondoPulse

Statuspage.io for condo buildings: tracks elevator uptime, amenity outages, and per-unit issues, giving residents, boards, and property managers a public accountability record.

Early access

GroundPlan

A 3D home planner in the browser: start a house from its outline, divide it into rooms over several floors, furnish it, and check the layout against the building code as you go.

Play it

Buzzword Bingo

Multiplayer bingo for video calls: everyone in the room gets a card of meeting buzzwords, and an optional speech listener marks tiles as they're actually said.

Play it

Quiz Show

A Jeopardy-style quiz show for game nights and team socials: the host puts the board on a TV, players buzz in from their phones, and the server decides who was first.

Pandemonium

A souls-like boss-battle game for the Nintendo 64, built in C for the 2025 N64brew Game Jam. The making-of video has over a million views on YouTube.

E-Ink Image Converter

A browser-based tool that converts images into dithered BMP files ready for e-ink displays.

Image Comparison Tool

A simple web tool for visually comparing before-and-after images with drag-and-drop support, plus an MCP server for AI-driven workflows.

Lightbox Quote Checker

Check whether your message will work within the constraints of a letterboard lightbox.

Skills

My core stack

TypeScriptReactReact NativeVueNode.jsLaravel (PHP)PostgreSQLGraphQL

Also experienced with

AngularFlutterRxJSC / C++.NETRedisSQLiteREST APIsMCP serversDockerCI/CDAzure / AWSThree.js / Babylon.jsUnityBlenderFigmaAdobe Creative Cloud

Education

Interactive Media Specialist

Fanshawe College · 2014–2015

3D Character Design & Animation

Fanshawe College · 2013–2014

Interactive Media Design

Fanshawe College · 2011–2013