Kevin Kays
Senior Software Engineer at Nava
Lebanon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kays is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building practical, readable systems and leading teams through ambiguous problems for tech industry leaders. He has driven delivery and engineering maturity at companies like Raybeam/DEPT®—scaling teams, instituting rigorous devops and security workflows, and becoming the first engineer there certified to submit autonomous Google code—before joining Nava. Kevin blends hands-on implementation in Python, TypeScript, and Java with mentorship and process design, favoring simple, extensible solutions that close critical workflow gaps for users. Outside work he applies the same discipline to trail running and climbing, reflecting a preference for durable progress over flashiness.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (74)
autocomplete10
language-server-protocol10
ada10
rights10
django10
checker10
portal10
neovim-plugin10
factory10
converter10
pdf10
weasyprint10
dms9
phone-number9
python9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Raybeam/raybot
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Raybeam bot current used with Campfire
Contributions:36 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 11 months
discordcampfirebotdiscord-bot
okkays/ghd
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Utility to manage cloning and cd'ing to Github repos.
Contributions:1 release, 30 PRs, 106 pushes in 3 years
cloninggithub-reposingcli
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