Kevin Fleming
Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Experience at Fastly
Town of Pelham, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Fleming is a seasoned engineering leader with over three decades in technology, currently shaping developer experience at Fastly after leading RHEL program work at Red Hat and founding Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office. He brings rare depth in open-source stewardship—seven years managing the Asterisk project and sustained contributions to high-profile projects like systemd and PowerDNS—combined with hands-on program and release management for large, distributed engineering organizations. Kevin excels at turning complex infrastructure and protocol-level problems into reliable developer-facing tools, from CI/CD improvements and API work to CLI, SDKs, and Terraform provider delivery. Known for pragmatic documentation and process-driven automation, he unites global, timezone-spanning teams to create clearly usable developer platforms.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
none, general studies, none, general studies at Phoenix College
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Github contributions (5)
PowerDNS/pdns
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Back-end Developer
Technical Writer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 32 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the documentation for the PowerDNS Recursor, enhancing clarity and accuracy for settings and API endpoints. Their contributions included correcting default values, clarifying address and port configuration, and adding examples. Furthermore, the user implemented the /api/docs endpoint for obtaining the OpenAPI document and refined the API's response body mechanism. The user also updated the build system to use Python 3 and addressed several minor bugs.
dnsdistpowerdns-recursordnssystems-programmingrecursor
jenkinsci/ec2-plugin
Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Jenkins ec2 plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on maintaining and enhancing the Jenkins EC2 plugin. They applied the MIT license across various plugin components. The contributions included refactoring code for backward compatibility regarding node naming, improving template identification, and ensuring proper handling of instance caps. These changes ensured the plugin's ongoing functionality and addressed usability issues.
spotinstjenkinsec2agentjenkins-plugin
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