Kevin Kelly
Engineering Manager at Spotify
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kelly is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience focused on advertising and media technology, currently leading remote teams at Spotify to deliver podcast content and monetization infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby on Rails, React, Go, and Kubernetes with strategic planning—recently driving cloud migrations aimed at zero customer downtime. Kevin has scaled teams across backend, full-stack, and SRE domains for high-traffic platforms (including a podcast service with over half a billion monthly downloads) and emphasizes technical growth through mentorship and synchronous remote collaboration. His background spans low-level systems work (C/C++ network filtration and FPGA development) to real-time web applications, giving him a rare full-stack-to-kernel perspective. Based in Reston, VA, he is comfortable coordinating cross-organization initiatives and staying actively involved in code and architecture while managing delivery.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (83)
infrastructure10
javascript10
angular10
tree10
dx9
microservices9
react9
graph-drawing9
typescript9
graph-editor9
nodejs9
web-developer8
web-performance8
autocomplete8
ozone8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kevin-K/kevin-k.github.io
Oct 2018 - Oct 2021
source code for www.kevinjkelly.net
Contributions:7 PRs, 98 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years
aml-development/ozp-demo
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 104 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
ozone
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