Kevin Africa
Software Development Engineer II at US Navy
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Africa is a Software Development Engineer II and U.S. Navy submarine veteran with 11+ years of engineering experience and over 15 years leading multidisciplinary teams in high-stakes environments. He applies a rare combination of embedded-systems expertise (CAN, dSpace, Verilog/VHDL) and cloud-native engineering (AWS Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB) to build resilient serverless infrastructure and operational tooling at AWS GovCloud and ADC regions. His background includes validating autonomous driving safety at GM, implementing production ML and NLP projects at KPMG, and operating nuclear reactor and maritime operations—skills that drive rigorous systems thinking and safety-first design. Kevin has international operational experience across Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, and holds an active TS/SCI clearance that enables sensitive, mission-critical work. He’s known for turning complex operational requirements into pragmatic automation and monitoring solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and improving service visibility and reliability in highly regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaNaval Nuclear Propulsion, Naval Nuclear Propulsion at Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)Data Science, Data Science at Galvanize Inc
Github Skills (8)
homebrew10
command-line-tool10
macos10
administration10
binaries10
cli10
zsh8
oh-my-zsh4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kevinafrica/pycodecomplete
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:160 commits, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
kevinafrica/homebrew-cask
Sep 2020 - Jun 2022
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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