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Karey H. Powell

Backend Engineer

// manchester, jm · UTC-5

Staff Engineer & AI Systems Architect

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Scouting report

Veteran CakePHP/Ruby engineer — deep tenure, quiet lately

assessed from open-source footprint

Staff
72signal

Karey is a 14-year GitHub veteran with reusable CakePHP libraries (in-place editing 8★, multi-step forms 6★) and a broad Ruby/PHP/Go backend footprint. Two real caveats temper it: only 2 commits last year, 96% of repos abandoned, and his lone external is a single watch-list commit to memory-bank-mcp (905★), not a true contribution. Senior-architect experience is plausible, but ask him to show current, in-depth work.

Authorship & open source

Major contributorwrote 7% of commits on CakePHP-InPlace-Editing
12 merged PRs2 commits / yr1 external project1,557 private contributions / yr

Contributes to

  • alioshr/memory-bank-mcp905

What they build

Backend74%
Frontend15%
Mobile8%

Industry experience

  • Developer Tools
  • Education & EdTech
  • Web & CMS

Signal breakdown

Originality68
Impact90
Consistency62
Polish55
Stars

14

top repo 8

Original repos

27

49% forks

Followers

30

On GitHub

14.1 yr

Live demos

3

Activity

Active

96% stale

Strengths

  • Major contributor on their flagship repositories
  • 12 merged pull requests
  • Ships to production — 3 live demos
  • Backend focus with Frontend
  • Domain experience in Developer Tools & Education & EdTech
  • Core stack: Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Java