Kevin Gibbs
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Gibbs is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with a long track record of building low-level and distributed systems across Amazon and defense industry roles. He shapes the future of containerized workloads at AWS—contributing to ECS, CloudMap, and App Mesh—and has directly enhanced the popular amazon-ecs-agent open-source project by adding Service Connect and relay support. With roots in reverse engineering, embedded development, and secure coding practices, he combines deep systems expertise with product-focused delivery. His career spans work on Amazon Scout, Fire TV services, and large-scale network services, showing a consistent pattern of moving from research and tooling into production-critical systems. A University of Illinois MS and Rose-Hulman BS graduate, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering, often tackling compatibility and interoperability challenges others avoid. Colleagues know him for preferring interesting technical problems and for refactoring messy architectures into maintainable, security-aware solutions.
4 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS Computer Science Computer Engineering, BS Computer Science Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
go10
agent10
dockers9
aws9
docker9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 40 commits, 28 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `aws/amazon-ecs-agent` repository by implementing new features and refactoring existing components. They added a new field to the `DiscoverPollEndpointOutput` struct, enabling Service Connect functionality. The user also consolidated service connect components, migrating code from `agent/serviceconnect` to `agent/engine/serviceconnect`, enhancing the agent's architecture. Further, they added support for launching Relay and mapping relay parameters.
service-containeramazon-ec2agentelasticamazon
aws-gibbskt/amazon-ecs-agent
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Contributions:9 PRs, 153 pushes, 25 branches in 10 months
service-containeragentelasticamazondocker
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