Kevan Ahlquist
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKevan Ahlquist is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience building full‑stack, scalable systems and leading technical delivery at Amazon, where he currently focuses on contracted supply, identity, and compliance for Relay. He has driven architecture and operational excellence for tier‑1 services, designed scalable data models for global expansion, and personally conducted 150+ technical interviews while mentoring engineers. Earlier, he modernized front‑end platforms at Bluestem Brands—leading a rapid companywide adoption of React/Redux and routing millions of daily requests—and maintained the widely used open‑source UI for Docker project that grew from 30k to 15M downloads. Comfortable spanning frontend and backend integration, he combines hands‑on feature work, production resiliency, and CI/CD automation with a pragmatic approach to shipping large‑scale systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Minnesota
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
back-end-development10
css10
dockers10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
kubernetes-pods10
html10
backend10
eslint9
ui-design9
uid9
react9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kevana/ui-for-docker
Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
A web interface for Docker, formerly known as DockerUI. This repo is not maintained
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 220 commits, 75 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevan primarily contributed to the UI for Docker project by implementing new features for container management, including pause/unpause actions and the ability to restart containers. They also added functionality for environment variables and port bindings during container creation. These changes involved modifying existing Angular controllers and services, suggesting a focus on frontend and backend integration within the application. Furthermore, they refactored the project by moving assets and Angular files into dedicated folders, and modularized the application.
web-interfaceremote-developmentdockerdevelopment-environmentdockerui
kevana/dockerui
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 PRs, 69 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
docker-composedockerweb-interface
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