Kevin Cramer is a senior software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building reliable backends and impactful front-end experiences for millions of users. He blends low-level systems expertise (C/C++, Yocto, Linux) with modern web stacks (React, Next.js, Node, Python) and AWS/Kubernetes deployment know-how. Kevin has led engineering and QA teams, scaled processes at consumer-focused Imgur, and shipped IoT and embedded solutions for Savant Power that bridge device firmware to cloud analytics. He contributes to open-source projects like the Open Lighting Architecture, having worked on RDM APIs and dimmer features, showing a knack for hardware-adjacent, protocol-level work. Outside of engineering he’s an avid pilot and cyclist—an indicator of his hands-on, disciplined approach to complex problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Engineering, BS Computer Engineering Engineering at Ohio Northern University
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General Assembly
The Open Lighting Architecture - The Travel Adaptor for the Lighting Industry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 10 PRs, 30 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Open Lighting Architecture project by modifying RDM (Remote Device Management) related modules. Their work involved fixing comment errors, re-addressing code review comments, and merging changes from other branches. The changes include modifications to RDMHTTPModule.cpp and RDMAPI.cpp, indicating involvement in the API and HTTP interface for lighting control devices. They also appear to be working on features related to dimmers.
Contributions:36 PRs, 32 pushes, 10 branches in 6 days
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