Edward Kawas
Lead Software Developer at VRIFY
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Kawas is a pragmatic software leader with over 16 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, DevOps practices, and full-stack applications across startups and enterprise teams. Currently a Lead Software Developer in Vancouver, he combines deep expertise in Java, Golang, PHP, Node.js and Python with a track record of architecting microservices, Kubernetes-based deployments, and resilient cloud platforms. He has led and grown engineering teams, introduced 24/7 incident readiness, and driven performance and security improvements that rescued legacy systems from critical bottlenecks. As principal of his consulting firm he pairs technical delivery with strategic assessments and go-to-market guidance, and his open-source contributions include backend-focused enhancements to a widely used Laravel roles package. Colleagues describe him as a mentor-first manager who still enjoys getting his hands dirty solving thorny performance and integration problems.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
php10
laravel10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
acl9
configurations8
configuration-management8
migration8
configuration-file8
cicd6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jeremykenedy/laravel-roles
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
A Powerful package for handling roles and permissions in Laravel with GUI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 12 days
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the Laravel-roles package, focusing on adjustments and improvements to the configuration and service provider. They made changes related to default migrations, likely enhancing the package's setup and functionality. Numerous commits addressed "nitpick-CI fixes," indicating efforts to improve code quality and adherence to coding standards, possibly related to automated testing or CI/CD integration within the repository. These adjustments indicate a focus on backend configuration and ensuring the package's robustness.
acl-managementlaravel-5laravel-aclguipermissions
ekawas/disinfect
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Request query, payload, and params sanitization for Hapi
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
queryapihapiparamspayload
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