Kevin Davin
Principal Software Engineer at Freelance
Plaisance-du-Touch, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Davin is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in cloud-native architectures, Kotlin, and Google Cloud, currently driving Gradle Enterprise’s adaptation to Kubernetes and improving developer productivity. A Google Developer Expert on Google Cloud and Kotlin and a GitLab Hero, he blends deep hands-on engineering—Kotlin, Java, SQL, YAML—with CI/CD and GKE expertise to streamline deployment, testing, and operations. He has led cloud-native initiatives and coached teams in DevOps practices, from code quality and end-to-end testing to continuous deployment. An active open-source contributor and front-end fixer on projects like the gdg-x/hoverboard conference template, he also maintains a long-running Podcast-Server project and has significant experience training and organizing developer communities in France.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Informatique SIS, Master Informatique SIS at Université de Toulon
French, English
Stackoverflow
521reputation
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
polymer10
web-components10
html10
lit-element9
material-design9
firebase8
css8
markdown7
pwapp7
markdown-it7
tomcat6
jpa6
hibernate6
angularjs6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gdg-x/hoverboard
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
Conference website template
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 20 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the front-end of the conference website template. Their work included fixing issues related to serving markdown and images, adding features for date formatting and session types, and improving the display of speaker information. They also refactored the code to use speaker IDs instead of array positions, enhanced the user experience within modal windows, and corrected spacing issues.
lit-elementtemplatefirestoreweb-componentsfirebase
furzeface/gulp-cache-bust
May 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 1 month
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