Kevin Davis
Head Of Product at Kava Labs Inc
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Davis is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently serves as Head of Product at Kava Labs, where he previously progressed from Lead Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager. He blends hands-on backend development—contributing core payment channel logic to Kava’s prominent DeFi repository—with product strategy and team leadership to ship secure, interoperable blockchain features. Kevin’s background in data science from UC Berkeley and earlier work in environmental data and quarantine research informs his analytical approach to product decisions and systems design. Comfortable bridging research, operations, and engineering, he is known for turning complex cross-module requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Data Science, Master's Degree Data Science at UC Berkeley School of InformationBachelor's Degree Botany Environmental Studies, Bachelor's Degree Botany Environmental Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (8)
cosmos-sdk10
go10
blockchain10
f9
api8
apim8
cryptocurrency8
api-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Kava-Labs/kava
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
DeFi for Crypto.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:79 releases, 501 reviews, 450 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `paychan` module within the Kava DeFi repository. They implemented core business logic for creating and managing payment channels, a core functionality of this module. The code changes included the creation of new structs, functions, and methods to create, initialize, and close payment channels, including verifying signatures. Additionally, they worked on integrating with other modules like the bank keeper for managing funds.
ethereumcosmos-sdkblockchaincryptocryptocurrency
Kava-Labs/connector-config
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Configuration environment for running an ilp-connector
Contributions:14 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
configurationconnectorenvironment-configurationilpstarlark
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