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.
16 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 (93)
dm10
act10
rendering10
rpg10
json-api10
reverse10
xslt10
json-api-serializer10
api9
reviewer9
driver9
serializer9
json9
voting9
elixir9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kbaird/consensus
Nov 2016 - Nov 2021
An Erlang library pertaining to consensus democracy, including Condorcet voting
Contributions:272 commits, 52 PRs, 194 pushes in 5 years 1 month
gleamerlangincrementalcondorcet-votingconsensus
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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