Kevin Baird
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Heroku
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Baird is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 16 years building resilient, cloud-native systems across startups and platforms, now focused on Erlang/OTP and Elixir after a long tenure in Ruby/Rails. He brings deep expertise in functional programming, TDD, refactoring, and code quality, often acting as the team's rigorous reviewer and architectural steward. His background spans platform roles at Heroku and Tubi and senior engineering leadership at companies like Weedmaps and Game Play Network, blending SaaS, media, and distributed systems experience. Unusually for an engineer, he holds advanced degrees in music composition and computer music, which informs a creative, systems-oriented approach to software design.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.F.A., Composition with New Media, M.F.A., Composition with New Media at California Institute of the ArtsPh.D., Music Composition, Ph.D., Music Composition at University at BuffaloB.A., Religion, B.A., Religion at Oberlin CollegeM.Mus., Computer Music, M.Mus., Computer Music at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (75)
rendering10
xslt10
driver10
dialyzer10
serializer9
erlang9
elixir9
sicp9
scheme9
code-analysis8
mongodb8
java8
ruby7
mongodb-driver7
haskell7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kbaird/Fate-XSLT
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
DTDs & XSLT sheets for rendering characters for various derivatives of the Fate RPG
Contributions:2061 commits, 156 PRs, 752 pushes in 9 years 3 months
renderingxslt
kbaird/intro-to-mix
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
elixirelixir-httplangelixir-langmix
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