Kevin Fahy
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Fahy is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and debugging large-scale web applications, currently based in Burlingame and leading engineering efforts at Netflix. He progressed through multiple senior and staff roles at Netflix after earlier technical leadership and engineering positions at Evernote, bringing deep hands-on expertise in diagnosing complex production issues. Known for a talent for debugging and a collaborative coaching style, he prefers solving technical challenges over project management yet consistently helps teams improve reliability and developer velocity. His career path reflects steady impact in consumer-facing platforms and a knack for pragmatic, maintainable solutions grounded in strong computer science training from Simon Fraser University. A detail not often obvious: he repeatedly returned to and advanced within the same organizations, signaling both domain depth and strong cross-team trust.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Vancouver Island UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (74)
code-snippets10
dependency-injection10
kotlin10
tabletop9
java9
conditionals9
android9
text-editing9
requestanimationframe8
indentation8
javascript8
spine8
virtual-scroll8
java-api8
scrollable8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kfahy/dress-scanner
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 34 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 7 months
pythondisplaysweb-applicationscreen-scrapingscraping
kevinfahy/browsejyut
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 PRs, 20 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
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