Kevin Lewis
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKevin Lewis is an experienced developer and developer-experience leader based in Berlin with 11 years of building developer tools, educational content, and communities. Currently Director of Developer Experience at Directus and a partner at Hack Labs, he blends hands-on front-end and docs work—contributing notable UX and information-architecture improvements to the popular Directus open-source project—with strategic program design. Kevin has a strong track record as a developer advocate and educator, having created reproducible demo frameworks, large-scale training programs, and conference series that boosted inclusion and community growth across multiple countries. He thrives in teams that combine mutual support and autonomy, and is equally comfortable shipping UI components or designing long-term content strategy. Collected experience across startups, platform companies and GitHub programs gives him a pragmatic, product-focused approach to helping developers understand and apply complex concepts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Creative Computing Computer Science, BSc Creative Computing Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
typescript10
vitepress10
vue10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
documentation10
javascript9
html8
css8
graphql6
twilio-video6
api6
css-purge6
twilio6
gruntjs6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
directus/directus
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Front-end Developer (Docs)
Technical Writer & Front-end Developer (Docs)Contributions:166 reviews, 120 PRs, 298 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the documentation of the Directus project. They were involved in updating the documentation's information architecture, including changes to the sidebar, the addition of new guides for features such as breaking changes, building extensions and the introduction of marketplace documentation. The user also contributed to the design and implementation of the documentation's user interface, incorporating components like a newsletter signup form, improved snippet togglers, and updated the docs landing page. Furthermore, they added blog posts to various guides, and included UI components.
authbackendcustom-uiheadless-cmsapi
yougotthisconf/yougotthis.io
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Current website at yougotthis.io
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 PRs, 82 pushes in 10 months
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