Kevin Bell
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Bell is a Solutions Architect based in Seattle with over a decade of hands-on experience translating customer needs into scalable cloud and CI/CD solutions. He has driven technical strategy and customer engineering at AWS and previously led customer-facing engineering at CircleCI, where he shipped self-hosted deployments and features for complex enterprise workflows. Kevin’s background blends product invention—holding a patent for an AR mobile imaging approach—with practical infrastructure expertise like AWS CloudFormation and automation for managed services. He excels at bridging pre- and post-sales technical gaps, coaching engineering teams, and aligning product priorities with strategic customers. Comfortable both in code (Objective-C, Python, Clojure(Script) heritage) and in the boardroom, he brings a pragmatic mix of developer empathy and systems thinking. His early international work and physics degree contribute to a methodical, cross-cultural approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of Washington
Japanese, English, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
915reputation
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Github Skills (161)
cost-optimization10
circleci10
intellij-idea10
security10
aws-s310
optimization10
jetbrains10
compojure10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
graph10
api-blueprint10
cloud-infrastructure10
java10
redoc10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bellkev/docker-hello-google
Aug 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 29 pushes in 5 months
editorconfig/editorconfig-jetbrains
Jul 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:44 commits in 1 year
ide-pluginplugineditorconfigjetbrains-ideide
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