Kevin Kragenbrink
Staff Software Engineer at HiddenLayer
Rainier, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKevin Kragenbrink is a Staff Software Engineer with over 14 years of professional experience and more than two decades of hands-on work designing distributed systems for businesses, education, and enterprise. He specializes in high-scale, cloud-native architectures and performance-sensitive back-end systems, having built batch processing pipelines that handle tens of thousands of events per second and on-premise sensors for OT network monitoring. Kevin has driven engineering and architectural decisions at organizations like CrowdStrike and PlayStation, mentoring engineers and shaping cross-team practices while advising on capacity and release strategy. He contributes to open-source tooling for game performance analysis (notably enhancing job-specific logic for Final Fantasy XIV's xivanalysis), reflecting a blend of practical production engineering and a gamer-focused hobbyist curiosity. Based in Rainier, Washington, he pairs deep systems thinking with pragmatic optimizations—often focusing on reducing memory footprint and improving throughput in Go and other back-end stacks.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
xivanalysis/xivanalysis
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Automated performance analysis and suggestion platform for Final Fantasy XIV
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 25 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily revolve around updating and maintaining data structures and modules related to the "White Mage" job in the Final Fantasy XIV analysis platform. They modified action and status data, added new actions, updated DoT mechanics, and implemented a lily tracking system. The user also contributed to localization updates and added Swiftcast tracking. The core focus is on job-specific logic and data integration for performance analysis.
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nivthefox/slate_sosly_org
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
Website for slate
Contributions:3 PRs, 128 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
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