Kevin Berridge
Vice President Of Engineering at Matrix Pointe Software
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Berridge is a seasoned engineering leader with 20+ years building mission-critical software for the justice and healthcare sectors, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Matrix Pointe Software where he leads 15+ engineers. He combines hands-on backend experience (including contributions to the Darklang project) with a strong emphasis on clean code, TDD, and modern engineering practices to deliver robust, client-focused products. A voracious learner and speaker, Kevin has presented at conferences like CodeMash and Stir Trek and ran a local developer meetup to broaden community exposure to diverse technologies. His academic research on swarm intelligence and mobile agents—published in IEEE and regional conferences—underscores a long-standing curiosity for unconventional problem-solving approaches. Outside of work he plays jazz trombone in two bands, which reflects his collaborative, improvisational approach to technical leadership.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Solon High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Dayton
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Github Skills (16)
functional-programming10
back-end-development10
api-design9
windows-service9
logging9
cloud-computing8
editor7
editors7
vim6
unit-testing6
errorformat6
fluentnhibernate6
mercurial6
nhibernate6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
darklang/dark
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions center around enhancing the backend of the Darklang project. The commits reveal the addition of functionality related to worker stats, including the addition of new types and functions in Types.ml, Analysis.ml, and webserver.ml. The changes also involve modifications to the client-side code (App.ml, View.ml, Fetcher.ml), integrating the new worker stats data and implementing API calls. Further modifications to existing tests were also undertaken.
functional-programmingdarklangcloudbackendeditor
kberridge/dark
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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