Kevin Farrell
Engineering Manager at Dropbox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Farrell is an engineering manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling data and infrastructure systems across startups and industry, currently leading data infrastructure at Dropbox. He combines hands-on architecture and devops expertise with people leadership, having moved teams from monolithic Rails apps to microservices, built CI/CD and Docker-based platforms, and delivered multi-tenant ecommerce and ML-driven computer vision pipelines. Kevin thrives in fast-paced environments, balancing pragmatic business trade-offs with long-term technical health and mentoring engineers to own reliable, scalable systems. A former co-founder and university research computing lead, he brings deep operational experience managing clusters, storage, and heterogeneous stacks—an engineer who still dives into code and infrastructure when it matters.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Github Skills (17)
hiveserver210
python10
geocoder10
python-interface10
sqlalchemy10
nodejs-library10
presto9
geocoding9
hive9
kibana8
javascript8
visualizations8
nodejs7
elasticsearch7
elastic6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KevinFarrell/node-geocoder
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 days
geocodingjavascriptnodejsgeocoding-library
KevinFarrell/node-acme-client
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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