Kevin Jacoby
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Addepar
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Jacoby is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Edinburgh with 7 years of leadership experience building and scaling remote, diverse engineering teams across the UK, US and Europe. He excels as a manager of managers, combining hands-on technical judgment with strong people-first practices—creating high-happiness teams, mentoring managers, and formalizing processes for quality, hiring and cross-team delivery. Kevin has led account and F2P verticals at FanDuel, driven internationalisation launches at Henry Schein One, and now heads engineering at Addepar, demonstrating a knack for coordinating distributed teams and contractor partnerships. He co-founded the Haggis Ruby conference and co-organises ScotRUG, reflecting a deep commitment to the Ruby community and developer culture beyond his day job. A pragmatic problem-solver, he intentionally blends product ownership, quality leadership and engineering coaching to turn ambiguous challenges into reliable, shipped outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Informatique et systèmes, Bachelor, Informatique et systèmes at EPHEC
French, English
Github Skills (23)
admin10
bootstrap10
mvc10
adminlte10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
dashboard9
git-branch8
branches7
jekyll6
release-management6
gateway5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liljack/rails
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
liljack/progress_bar
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
A Ruby terminal progress_bar
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nim-languagerubyprogress-barterminalprogressbar
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