Kevin Hughes
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Aiven
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hughes is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, developer-friendly infrastructure and backend systems, currently at Aiven in Ottawa. He combines a strong software engineering background from roles at Clio and Shopify with practical SRE expertise to improve CI/CD, observability, and production performance. Kevin has hands-on experience across the stack—replacing critical caching layers, building distributed tracing visualizations, and leading large re-architecture efforts to enforce code boundaries and reduce flakiness. His open-source contributions range from machine learning experiments like a TensorFlow-based self-driving MarioKart to maintenance and tooling work in C++ and Rails ecosystems, reflecting both research roots and pragmatic engineering. He values code quality and developer experience, and even took a year to travel while consulting remotely—evidence of adaptability and an unconventional, curious mindset.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at CourseraComputer Science, Computer Science at UdacityM.A.Sc., Computer Engineering, M.A.Sc., Computer Engineering at Queen's UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Athabasca University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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9answers
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opencv
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Github Skills (35)
ruby-rails10
opencv10
shopify-api10
javascript10
c-language10
expressjs10
python10
omniauth10
machine-learning10
rails10
ruby10
tensorflow10
computer-vision10
shopify-app10
nodejs10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kevinhughes27/TensorKart
Jun 2013 - Jun 2021
self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 40 commits, 23 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on developing the AI training framework for a self-driving MarioKart project. They implemented a data viewer to analyze datasets and controlled the data used for training. They added the core training framework and started on a road segmentation algorithm for AI training. The user also worked on the road segmentation algorithm.
tensorflowmachine-learning
Shopify/shopify_app
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
A Rails Engine for building Shopify Apps
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:147 commits, 157 PRs, 318 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Shopify app development, modifying core configurations, and implementing features. They removed and refactored initializer files, updated the session management, and configured the application's root URL. They worked on both the backend, configuring the session repository and related settings, and the frontend, including changes to layouts and removing unnecessary elements. Additionally, they added webhooks to the example home controller and implemented basic setup for per-user authentication.
rails-enginesshopify-app
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