Kevin Lawver
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Bonusly
Savannah, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Lawver is a seasoned Senior Staff Software Engineer and technical leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails products and teams. He has a strong track record as a hands-on CTO, interim CEO, and head of engineering—launching AOL’s early Rails apps, growing startups’ marketplaces, and helping scale apps to tens of millions of users. Kevin combines deep full-stack engineering and ops expertise (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq) with people leadership, mentoring, and long-running agile practice to turn messy problems into reliable, automated systems. He’s known for dramatic productivity gains—automating recruiting workflows to multiply recruiter capacity—and for stepping into roles where both technical execution and organizational change are needed. Based in Savannah, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale experience and sustained community involvement on several non-profit and school boards. Colleagues rely on him as a pragmatic architect who still enjoys coding and shipping.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
none English Biology, none English Biology at BYUBrigham Young University
French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
capistrano10
pingdom10
server-monitor9
trigrams9
scopes9
metaphone9
multi-search9
rails8
ruby8
pg-search8
monitor8
configuration-management7
text-search7
activerecord6
full-text-search6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
railsmachine/moonshine_mariadb
Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 1 year 2 months
galera-clusterinstallinggaleramoonshinemariadb
ficly/ficly.org
Aug 2014 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 5 years 5 months
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