Kingsley Raspe

Kingsley Raspe

Full stack web developer / DevOps Engineer`

A full-stack web developer with 9+ years experience, specialising in Laravel and Vue.js, originally from the UK, now residing in the beautiful lake-side city of Gary, Indiana.

Currently, I work as a remote DevOps Engineer at Pearson, ensuring their websites/AWS fleet is up and running, and using a variety of languages and cutting-edge processes, build devops-related tools for both internal teams, and customers ensuring they have the best possible user-journey.

Available for:

  • Remote work
  • Contract work
  • Full time work
  • Part time work
  • I'm currently not available

Available from:

03/10/2025

In the following areas:

  • 50 miles from Gary, IN

About Kingsley

  • Age: 30
  • Location: Gary, IN
  • Language: English, German, Dutch
  • Availability: Not Available

Kingsley's highlights

  • DevOps Engineer

    Pearson

    2017 — Present

  • BSc (Hons) International Web Development 2:1

    Staffordshire University

    2010 — 2014

Work

  • Miller Beach Air Quality and Industry Tracker

    Tracking the air quality in Miller Beach, Gary, IN, from a community-funded air sensor.

  • Happy Birthday Maddie

    Every year I wish my wife a Happy Birthday with something new on happybirthdaymaddie.com.

  • Hey, are you online?

    Check whether your team is online with heyareyou.online - the only status you need to worry about.

  • Crestchic Loadbanks

    I redesigned and redeveloped crestchic-usa.com.

Skills

  • Laravel
  • VueJS
  • NodeJS
  • ExpressJS
  • JavaScript (ES6)
  • SASS
  • HTML5
  • CSS3

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Pearson REMOTE

I remotely support our entire fleet of AWS infrastructure, including debugging, management, deployment, securing, upgrading, monitoring & performance updates for our 100+ websites.

Full stack Web Developer

Forwardslash Consulting Limited UK

I freelanced through my company Forwardslash Consulting LTD in the UK and operated as full stack web dev contractor, working with clients around the world, including the USA, Dubai, Australia, and Europe.

eLearning Consultant / Developer

Phones 4u Stoke-on-Trent, UK

Developed a series of internal micro-sites to help Phones 4u's 5000 retail staff digest daily/weekly/monthly content from leadership, partners, new tech, regulatory info, etc.

Web Developer

The Grossbauer Group Chicago, USA

12 month international internship as front/backend developer. Responsible for the development and maintenance for a variety of nationwide, high profile clients.

Education

BSc (Hons) International Web Development 2:1

Staffordshire University Stafford, UK

Graduated with Honours in International Web Development. Completed a 12-month overseas Internship at Chicago-based Integrated Marketing Agency, The Grossbauer Group, focusing on all areas of Web Development. Received a Bachelor of Science with Second Class 1st Division Honours

Dissertation titled "www.whynotemploy.me, a generic user-driven online resume and portfolio showcase with intelligent ranking of search results".

HND Applied Information Technology

Staffordshire University Lichfied, UK

BTEC Applied IT

Tamworth & Lichfield College Tamworth, UK