Kevin Harder
Principal Software Engineer at eBay
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Harder is a Principal Software Engineer and hands-on technical leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems across e-commerce, marketplace, and learning platforms. He combines deep expertise in enterprise search, messaging and pub/sub architectures, API and extensible platform design with strong people leadership—hiring, coaching, and growing teams in agile environments. Kevin has led cross-functional efforts at companies like eBay, TCGplayer, Square, and Indeed to modernize high-volume search, aggregation, and reporting systems while keeping developer experience and on-call operability front and center. He frequently partners with product using data-driven decision making to turn complex problems into pragmatic, customer-focused solutions. A public developer advocate and open-source-friendly engineer, he enjoys helping others adopt platforms and contributing to community developer ecosystems. Outside engineering, his background in astrophysics hints at a curiosity-driven approach and a fondness for pumpkins and Austin life.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science - BS Astrophysics at Florida Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
content-management-system6
wordpress6
drupal6
azure-sql-database6
chmod6
post6
facebook6
microsoft1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
harder/austinpuzzles
Dec 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
harder/harder.dev
Nov 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
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