Kevin Kerr
Engineering Manager at Belfry
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kerr is an experienced engineering leader with a decade of practice building and scaling web products and teams, currently leading engineering at Belfry in New York. He progressed from hands-on roles in web development to Director of Engineering at Outreach, where he launched an enduring GraphQL API gateway and owned org-level OKRs across a 200+ person product, engineering and design organization. Kevin has a strong history of mentoring junior engineers, integrating acquired teams, and shipping client-facing and backend systems using modern JavaScript stacks. His background spans startups and established shops, from Formidable Labs to museum and enterprise web development, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective. Notably, he combines product-focused roadmap ownership with a knack for quickly productionizing robust infrastructure—delivering a gateway service in four months that still runs today. He holds a BA from the University of Washington and brings a mix of technical depth, operational rigor, and people-first leadership.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History & Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History & Political Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (42)
webpack-dev-server10
react-component9
devtools9
react-router8
cli8
rich-text-editor8
react8
quill8
office-js8
webpack8
data-visualizations8
npm7
dashboard7
redux7
router7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kkerr1/BlindPollAppServer
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
kkerr1/jwt-debug-server
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 1 day
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