Kevin Brown
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Brown is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building maintainable, high-value systems and leading engineering teams from startup to enterprise. He combines hands-on backend expertise—particularly with Elixir, OTP, Postgres and RabbitMQ—and practical Rails/JS migrations to modernize legacy platforms and ship resilient production features. As a co-founder and former development team lead, he’s comfortable balancing product needs with pragmatic engineering trade-offs and has delivered large-scale moderation and admin systems for social media. He contributes to open-source authentication tooling, refining LDAP admin flows, and has a mechanical engineering background that surfaces in his methodical approach to debugging and performance work. Based in Charlotte, NC, he’s known for preferring results over theory while still investing in team health and maintainable codebases.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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Github Skills (18)
ldap10
devise10
authentication10
user-authentication10
ruby10
back-end-development9
css9
backend9
html6
background-color6
paperclip6
actionview6
ruby-on-rails6
communications6
yaml6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cschiewek/devise_ldap_authenticatable
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Devise Module for LDAP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 issues in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on updating the `connection.rb` file, which appears to handle LDAP authentication. Their contributions centered around modifying the admin authentication process, refining how admin users are authorized within the system. These updates involved changing the parameters used for authentication and adding new logic to determine admin access. The user also adjusted the group membership checks and logging processes.
deviseldap
chevinbrown/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Mar 2023
Kevin's dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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