Kevin Dietz
Founder at OpenSquiggly
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Dietz is a seasoned technology leader, software architect, and founder with over 25 years of experience building cloud-native, developer-focused tools across startups and large enterprises. Currently leading OpenSquiggly and serving as a Principal Developer at Atlassian, he blends hands-on engineering with product intuition to design intuitive, user-discoverable software rather than feature bloat. His technical breadth spans C#, .NET, JavaScript frameworks, C++, Java, Python, and both SQL and NoSQL databases, paired with a strong emphasis on TDD, clean code, and pragmatic refactoring of legacy systems. Kevin is passionate about developer productivity—he envisions integrating the best of Backstage, Sourcegraph, Swagger, and Jupyter into a unified platform and is building tools to make developers’ lives better. Known for bridging product lifecycles and engineering execution, he brings a rare combination of systems-level architecture and empathetic user-centric design.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MSCS Computer Science, MSCS Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
Stackoverflow
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785reached
1answer
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Github Skills (12)
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core9
fsharp9
wsl27
asp-net-core7
asp-net7
sql-server6
xsd6
visual-studio6
linq6
windows5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kevinknowscs/ProgrammingPractice
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:82 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
kevinknowscs/lalr1
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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