Kevin Edwards
Senior Software Developer at Sona - the employee app for tomorrow's workforce
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Edwards is a senior software developer with 15+ years of experience specialising in Ruby on Rails web applications and a background in Java for mobile and desktop systems. With an MEng in Computer Systems Engineering, he has operated across the full delivery lifecycle—UX, iteration planning, development, deployment and QA—while championing test-driven development and agile practices. He has led and contributed to products for frontline workforces and flexible staffing platforms, currently shaping Sona’s employee app after six years building Catapult’s platform. More recently he’s expanded into React and GraphQL while exploring Elixir and DevOps approaches for scaling growing Rails codebases. A practical problem-solver and occasional founder, he’s shipped MVPs, extracted reusable client gems, and balanced hands-on coding with system administration and product thinking. Based in Bristol, he pairs deep Rails expertise with curiosity about functional languages and operational tooling.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Systems Engineering, MEng, Computer Systems Engineering at University of SussexColyton Grammar SchoolPlymtree Primary School
Github Skills (42)
xero10
api9
activemodel9
scopes7
rails7
currency-converter7
role-based-authorization7
bank7
currency-exchange-rates7
spree7
syntactic-sugar6
currency6
rates6
accounting6
jquery6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kevTheDev/seed_dumper
Apr 2011 - Sep 2012
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year 5 months
railssqlpartsrubyseeds
kevTheDev/RailsPipedriveGem
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 26 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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