Kevin Bridges
Director Of Engineering, Platforms
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarKevin Bridges is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience and 15+ years of industry involvement scaling teams, platforms, and developer tooling. Currently Director of Engineering, Platforms at Ibotta, he has a track record of building product-led developer experiences—most notably founding DDEV, which drove hypergrowth in daily users through local web development tooling. Kevin blends platform engineering, DevOps, and data platform leadership, with deep experience in cloud architecture, CI/CD, and runtime automation across GCP and AWS. He’s pragmatic about operational excellence—refactoring core Docker workflows and improving environment management in open-source projects—and skilled at turning growth metrics into engineering priorities. Based in Alexandria, VA, he pairs startup founder instincts with enterprise delivery experience, consistently reducing onboarding and test cycle time while aligning teams to measurable OKRs.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
develop10
docker-compose10
dockers10
go10
devops10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
automated-build8
git7
rake6
rake-task6
php6
windows6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ddev/ddev
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 21 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin's commits primarily focus on refactoring and improving the existing Docker-based development environment. The changes involve stopping and removing containers, adding error handling, and adjusting command execution. Additionally, the user updated dependencies using govendor and addressed testing and versioning aspects of the CLI tool. These modifications point to an emphasis on streamlining the development workflow and ensuring proper environment management.
local-developmentxdebugddevphp82backdrop
fru-io/handbook
Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
How we work at DDEV
Contributions:6 reviews, 114 commits, 38 PRs in 3 years 5 months
how-we-workddev
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