Summary
Kevin Ludwig is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building reliable, test-driven systems across media and advertising at companies including The Walt Disney Studios, M-GO, Fandango, CityGrid, AT&T Interactive, and Yahoo. He champions readable, concise, and correct code, pairing a taste for elegant functional languages like Clojure with extensive hands-on work in Node.js, C/C++, Java, Python, and Ruby. As Director of Engineering he has delivered high-coverage, low-defect content management, real-time publishing, recommendation, and ad-serving platforms at scale. Based in Simi Valley, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with proven people leadership and a history of turning complex content and data pipelines into operational products. An uncommon detail: despite executive roles, he remains an active coder who prioritizes beautiful abstractions and testability in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Communications/advertising, BA Communications/advertising at California State University, Fullerton
BS Computer science, BS Computer science at California State University-Dominguez Hills