Hello, I'm Kevin!
I'm a forever-curious tinkerer that is excited by both new tech, as well as backfilling knowledge about classic design patterns (I come from a non-technical background, and have a degree in music performance 😅)
I feel most at-home working on backend/edge/cloud "turf", and reach for simple and elegant but pragmatic (above all else) solutions to problems.
I’m a Senior Engineer at Clerk, working on problems that span our entire stack, with a focus on our backend and edge surface areas.
Prior to Clerk, I was at...
HashiCorp as a Senior Web Engineer, where I focused on 2 big ships:
- Versioned docs - This was a complex, 4+ year long internal & enterprise ask, which was ultimately implemented with a GitHub App and event-driven ETL workflow, backed by AWS DynamoDB. This system is in use today, and supports all HashiCorp products' documentation. (Supporting)
- Developer AI — LLM/GPT-powered chat for docs and tutorials on https://developer.hashicorp.com, backed by Postgres, Azure AI, and a Node REST API. (Lead and sole engineer)
Capsule as a Frontend Engineer, where I primarily focused on the consumer-facing frontend and supported a AuthN/Z migration to AWS Cognito. (Supporting)