Summary
Kelvin Meeks is a founder and consulting architect/CTO with 13+ years of focused experience helping organizations accelerate product delivery, innovate architecture, and elevate engineering practices across startups and Fortune-scale enterprises. He leads International Technology Ventures, advising on cloud-native architecture, DevOps, security and regulatory compliance (including HIPAA) for multi-tenant SaaS platforms and has supported transformation programs with budgets exceeding $100M. Kelvin blends hands-on systems design and rapid delivery—having architected and shipped entire SaaS platforms and automated onboarding engines that cut implementation time from weeks to minutes—with executive coaching and interim CTO engagements. His background spans fintech, e-commerce, AML/fraud detection, and public-sector systems, informed by early career real-time and high-performance systems work and military technical leadership. He’s also an experienced technical reviewer and tech journalist, actively engaging with the developer community while researching a forthcoming book.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
2009 QCon San Francisco
2012 The Strange Loop, St. Louis
Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2014 QCon San Francisco
2015 QCon San Francisco
2010 JavaOne, San Francisco
2008 QCon San Francisco
2019 InsureTech Connect, Las Vegas
2009 JavaOne, San Francisco
2015 Seattle Code Camp
2014 The Strange Loop, St. Louis
Spanish, German, nihongo, English