KENTA YOUNG
Software Engineer and Photographer
Open to remote and hybrid roles
Who I am
I'm Kenta Young, a Software Engineer and photographer based in Idaho 🥔. With more than a decade of experience and a strong understanding of Javascript, Shopify Liquid, HTML, and CSS, I have a passion for building Shopify storefronts and polished web experiences.
I spent nearly 4 years at The Beyond Group, the last 1½ as a Senior Software Developer leading a small team, working with clients such as Needed, FabFitFun, Our Place, House of Spoils, HU Kitchen, Dagne Dover, Unhide, Auri Nutrition, Solawave, Cometeer, MUD\WTR, and Loyal.
I'm open to new opportunities to create, so please feel free to reach out and check out my resume.
What I've done
Custom subscription commerce
Rebuilt subscription purchasing on Shopify and Recharge, from variant-based products to custom selectors and cart upsells.
- Shopify
- Liquid
- JavaScript
- Recharge
Configurable page modules
Built plan and tier selectors, a restyled quiz, and hero modules in React, TypeScript, and a headless CMS.
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Headless CMS
Storefront build and accessibility
Helped build a Shopify storefront, from product pages and a side cart with upsells to an accessibility audit.
- Shopify
- Liquid
- JavaScript
- Accessibility
What I've worked with
Platforms and tools from client work and personal projects.
Shopify
- Online Store 2.0
- Liquid
- Shopify Plus
- Metafields
- Metaobjects
- Shopify Flow
- Checkout
- Customer accounts
Ecommerce apps
- Recharge
- Intelligems
- Yotpo
- Okendo
- Klaviyo
- Gorgias
Analytics and integrations
- Segment
- GA4
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Pixel
- Littledata
- HubSpot
Frontend
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Vue
- AngularJS
- Next.js
- Web Components
- HTML
- CSS
- SCSS
- Tailwind CSS
- Splide
- Swiper
- Vite
- Storybook
WordPress
- WordPress
- Elementor
- Gravity Forms
Backend and tools
- Node.js
- Cloudflare Workers
AI
- LLMs
- AI coding agents
- llms.txt
- agents.md
CMS and markup
- Sanity CMS
- JSON-LD
- ARIA
Tooling
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- Shopify CLI
- Prettier
- ESLint