Kevin Kohrt is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building database-driven web applications and operational platforms for SMBs and enterprise teams. An expert Ruby and Rails developer, he has progressively moved into site reliability and cloud infrastructure, designing and automating AWS deployments with tools like Chef, Jenkins, and SparkleFormation. He combines deep application logic and database design skills (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) with hands-on experience in messaging and reverse-proxy systems (RabbitMQ, HAProxy, nginx) to deliver resilient platforms. Kevin has led and scaled SRE teams, driven release engineering, and continues to ship platform improvements at Procore after prior leadership at NovuHealth. He runs a long-standing consulting practice building custom web apps, reflecting an entrepreneurial mindset alongside enterprise experience. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a practical, systems-oriented curiosity—moving from MATLAB and embedded work early in his career into modern cloud-native operations.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BME, Mechanical Engineering, BME, Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota
MSME, Mechanical Engineering, MSME, Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
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Kevin Kohrt - Staff Software Engineer at Procore Technologies