Kevin Goldsmith is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with three decades of experience building scalable consumer products and engineering organizations, currently leading the technical vision at DistroKid. He has repeatedly scaled teams and systems across startups and large companies—Spotify, Adobe, Microsoft, Avvo, Onfido, and Anaconda—bringing deep expertise in service scalability, org design, and product-focused engineering. A hands-on leader who coaches engineering leaders, he balances strategic architecture and operational reliability with a user-centered approach to consumer products. He also runs entrepreneurial ventures (Unit Circle Media, Nimble Autonomy) and serves as an advisor and board member, applying domain-specific languages and machine learning where they accelerate product value. Based in Seattle and trained at Carnegie Mellon in CS and applied math, he combines rigorous technical foundations with a knack for translating research-grade ideas into reliable production systems.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, BS Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:9 PRs, 31 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years
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