Kevin Brown-silva
Staff Software Engineer at Cedar
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Brown-silva is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with 13 years of experience building reliable web applications and leading engineering teams across fintech and healthcare. He combines front-end accessibility work—such as keyboard and screen-reader improvements to the popular Select2 project—with backend contributions to Django REST Framework, improving validation, schema generation, and test coverage. At Capital One he progressed through multiple senior engineering roles before joining Cedar, demonstrating a track record of technical leadership and delivery at scale. Known for clear refactors and pragmatic bug fixes, he balances shipping user-facing UX improvements with robust API and schema design.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Western New England University
English
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oauth
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authentication
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django
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testing
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html-select
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Github Skills (35)
accessibility10
javascript10
serializer10
jquery10
python10
django10
testing10
jquery-select210
user-interface10
validation10
api10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
post9
dropdown-menu9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
select2/select2
Feb 2013 - Jan 2021
Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 30 reviews, 907 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Kevin made several commits focused on improving the accessibility of the Select2 component. They added better support for keyboard navigation and implemented features to make the dropdown easier to use with screen readers. The user primarily focused on UI-related tasks, including the styling of elements and improving the user experience by adding key handlers.
data-setsjqueryscrollingjstreejavascript
encode/django-rest-framework
Jul 2013 - May 2020
Web APIs for Django. 🎸
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 27 commits, 25 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Django REST Framework, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements to the core functionality. Their work involved correcting assertion arguments, addressing issues with default values in the browsable API, and implementing tests for DecimalField validation. They also improved schema generation for fields, particularly for ListFields and ManyRelatedFields, and refactored code to improve clarity and maintainability.
apipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoweb-apis
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