Kevin Brightwell
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Faire
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Brightwell is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario, with 11 years of experience leading backend architecture, high-throughput systems, and cross-functional engineering teams. He has repeatedly served as tech lead for projects ranging from search infrastructure and file system drivers to large-scale marketing systems and data pipelines, and currently drives service extraction and AI tooling adoption at Faire. Kevin blends hands-on engineering with people leadership—coaching multiple tech leads while owning platform-level backend initiatives and AI strategy across the organization. His open-source work includes improving CI and build portability for the well-regarded sol2 C++/Lua binding, reflecting a pragmatic focus on testability and developer experience. He holds a Master’s in Computer Software Engineering and brings uncommon depth in low-level IO, asynchronous big-data pipelines, and practical tooling that bridges academic research and production software.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Western University
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
testing10
travis-ci10
cicd10
compiler-options10
lua10
compile10
build-automation10
compiler10
cprogramming-language10
luajit9
cmake9
clang8
gcc8
clangd8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ThePhD/sol2
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 184 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the project's build and testing infrastructure. They implemented Travis CI support, including the configuration of testing environments with different compilers and Lua versions. Furthermore, the user modified the build process to respect environment variables, and added a test case for usertypes with require_file. These changes improved the project's portability, testing coverage, and integration with continuous integration systems.
lua-bindingclangndkvisual-cppios
assertj/assertj-generator-gradle-plugin
May 2017 - Jan 2022
Gradle plugin for the AssertJ Generator
Contributions:4 releases, 29 reviews, 35 commits in 4 years 8 months
assertjgradlegradle-plugin
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