Kevin Kern
Technology Executive at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kern is a technology executive and board member based in San Francisco with nearly three decades of enterprise software and sales leadership, and nine years explicitly in executive roles. He has built and exited software businesses twice—selling Innotas to Planview and WaterSmart to VertexOne—demonstrating a capacity to scale SaaS products and deliver successful liquidity events. Skilled in enterprise software, PaaS, CRM, e-commerce and business development, he blends go-to-market rigor with product and operational oversight. Kevin stays hands-on with developer tooling and container ecosystems (notably contributing to a classic Docker Swarm repository), signaling an appreciation for code quality and maintainability beyond pure strategy. He advises startups and serves on multiple boards, bringing both operator experience and investor-minded discipline. His background in political science from UC Berkeley informs a pragmatic, people-centered approach to stakeholder alignment and governance.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (6)
maintainability10
go10
dockers9
docker9
configuration-file7
configurations7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
docker-archive/classicswarm
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Swarm Classic: a container clustering system. Not to be confused with Docker Swarm which is at https://github.com/docker/swarmkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to fixing typos and minor code inconsistencies within the codebase. Their work involved correcting textual errors in comments and code, as well as removing redundant code blocks in configuration files. Furthermore, the user made changes related to dependency updates by renaming existing ones. These changes indicate a focus on code quality and maintainability within the project.
containersswarmdocker-swarmdockerclustering
stkevintan/swarm
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
clusteringkubernetesswarmdocker
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