Kevin Barnes

Hi, I'm Kevin Barnes

Technical Cofounder at Epic Hire, passionate about creating awesome iOS apps and building secure, efficient backend systems.

I specialize in full-stack development with Swift, Spring Boot, and AWS services. When I'm not coding, you'll find me playing basketball, mountain biking, reading fantasy novels, or playing video games.

Featured Projects

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Epic Hire

Epic Hire

As technical cofounder, I own the full stack for Epic Hire: an iOS app, Java Spring Boot backend, AWS infrastructure, and React admin dashboard connecting college clubs with employer recruiting.

SwiftSwiftUIJavaSpring BootHibernatePostgreSQLReactJWTAWS
Showplaces

Showplaces

A privacy-first iOS app for saving, organizing, and sharing the places that matter to you — restaurants, trip stops, hidden gems — without ever collecting your location data or requiring an account.

SwiftUIVaporFluentSQLKitPostgreSQLSQLiteAWSS3JWTSendGrid
HexNicks

HexNicks

A Minecraft server plugin that lets players customize their nicknames with standard colors, hex colors, and gradients, with PlaceholderAPI and MySQL support for multi-server networks.

JavaMavenPaper APIFoliaMiniMessagePlaceholderAPIMySQLbStats

Recent Blog Posts

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Building an AI-Powered Job Parser

10 min read

One of the more interesting engineering problems I've worked on at EpicHire has been something deceptively simple on the surface: a recruiter pastes a job posting URL into our platform, and a few seconds later we have a fully structured job listing (title, company, location, compensation, job type, categories, and a nicely formatted description) ready to publish.