Kevin Bache
Founder Co-CEO at Phoenix (YC W21)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Bache is a product-focused founder and Co-CEO with 12 years of engineering and startup experience, currently building Phoenix (YC W21) to tackle broken healthcare delivery in Canada. He combines hands-on software development, design, and growth-hacking instincts with domain expertise in digital health and pharmaceutical advertising. Earlier ventures include founding Medistream Health Media and shipping large-scale web and mobile products at agencies, with a background in Node.js, Drupal, Angular, Rails, and iOS. Kevin also contributes to MLOps work upstream—maintaining and evolving Kubeflow Pipelines components and examples—reflecting a practical interest in ML infrastructure. Based in Old Toronto, he blends creative aesthetics (self-described "Machine Learning Aesthete") with measurable product and growth outcomes. His career pairs entrepreneurial grit with a developer’s attention to maintainable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
W21 Batch, W21 Batch at Y CombinatorSprott School of Business, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
Github Skills (10)
kubeflow10
machine-learning10
kubernetes10
mlops10
kubernetes-pods10
python9
docker8
dockers8
data-science7
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubeflow/pipelines
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Machine Learning Pipelines for Kubeflow
Role in this project:
MLOps Engineer
MLOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 19 PRs, 95 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Kubeflow Pipelines repository by updating component images and versions, suggesting a focus on maintaining and releasing pipeline components. They also modified pipeline samples, updating component URLs and container images used in example pipelines. Furthermore, the user added list pipelines functionality. The changes indicate a role in building and maintaining the infrastructure and components for machine learning pipelines.
pipelinetektondata-sciencemachine-learningmlops
kevinbache/tablestakes
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
Easy document generation and machine learning based information extraction.
Contributions:220 pushes in 4 months
nlpextractionpythondata-sciencemachine-learning
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