Kesean Woodhouse
Engineer working at the intersection of systems and people.
I build technical systems and help the people who use them: backend, integrations, automation, and the customer-facing work that connects the two.
About
Six years building integrations and internal tooling across enterprise software. I started at Microsoft Store, teaching customers and training staff at the Fifth Avenue flagship, went through Flatiron School, and moved into engineering through the Microsoft LEAP apprenticeship. That customer-first lens has shown up in every role since.
My strongest work has lived in the connective tissue between systems: pipelines that make things talk to each other, integrations that get used, tooling and monitoring that keep things running without constant hands-on intervention. I'm comfortable across C#, Python, PowerShell, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern cloud platforms (Azure, Vercel, Railway).
Since March 2024 I've been doing self-directed project work to stay sharp on modern development and cloud tooling, and I'm open to software engineering, technical program management, operations, and support roles. Remote or Seattle-area. You can also see this story compressed onto a single page → Resume
Work
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Independent Software Engineer / Technical Consultant
Self-directed software work and study, staying current with modern development and cloud tooling through hands-on projects. Built Golem, a chatbot integration project deployed end to end on Railway and Vercel with GitHub Actions CI/CD.
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Software Engineer, Security
Azure Data Factory pipelines exposing tenant risk scoring to the security analysts triaging malicious tenants, with row-level security scoping each team to its own tenants. Production database monitoring and alerting for the analyst team, Azure ingestion pipelines processing security telemetry across multiple tenants, and on-call support for analyst-authored scripts running on the platform.
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Integration Engineer
Enterprise integration tickets covering feature-flag configuration, deployment validation, and API and webhook troubleshooting across the Stripe platform, partnering with account managers and customer engineering teams.
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Software Engineer
C# and XAML features for the Tips app, a Windows Universal App shipped as a built-in Windows experience, including personalized recommendations and operational enhancements. Adapted the UI for the dual-screen Surface Neo form factor; the device was ultimately cancelled. Promoted from L59 to L60.
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Apprentice Software Engineer
Microsoft's 16-week apprenticeship for non-traditional engineering candidates, including a C# classroom phase and group project. Built a data architecture POC for field-seller analytics, testing two routes from Databricks to Power BI and reporting that neither met the required refresh window with the connectors available at the time.
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Solutions Engineer
Built and maintained demo environments showcasing recommendation and personalization strategies: custom PDPs, hero pages, and product feeds with JavaScript-based SKU field mapping, implemented alongside account executives for enterprise clients.
Earlier
Microsoft Store
Product Advisor, then Flagship Fifth Avenue, New York2014 – 2017
Customer technical consulting, one-on-one and group training delivery, pre-sales demos and consultation for small business customers, and store operations.
Projects
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Golem
A chatbot integration project, built as hands-on practice.
Golem is a chatbot that answers technical questions in a structured format: summary, root cause, debug steps, relevant docs. I built it as practice wiring a full application together across services: auth, a backend API, a deployed frontend, CI, and end-to-end tests, to stay current with modern tooling after time focused on other work.
Python · Flask · React · TypeScript · Anthropic SDK · Railway · Vercel · GitHub Actions · Playwright