Kevin McAlear
Co-Founder at Channel
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKevin McAlear is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building and scaling web and mobile products from idea to production. As Co-Founder of Channel and a former founding engineer at startups like Shadow and Kinvolved, he has repeatedly led early technical efforts and grown engineering teams. His background includes shipping high-impact features at Amazon—helping launch Amazon Restaurants, Prime Now, and integrating Alexa with food ordering—and teaching immersive coding and data science programs at General Assembly, Flatiron School, and WeWork. Kevin bridges product, engineering, and education, comfortable across full-stack stacks (Rails, Angular/React, AWS) and data tooling (Python, Jupyter). He brings operational grit from prior manufacturing and operations leadership roles, which informs a pragmatic approach to scaling systems and teams. Based in London, he combines startup velocity with an educator’s knack for distilling complex technical ideas into practical learning.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Alternative Master of Business Administration altMBA Field Of StudyRuckus-making, Alternative Master of Business Administration altMBA Field Of StudyRuckus-making at altMBAData Science Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Data Science Mathematical Statistics and Probability at General AssemblyBusiness Administration Business Management Economics Political Science, Business Administration Business Management Economics Political Science at Grand Canyon UniversityBusiness Management Business Management Economics, Business Management Business Management Economics at Owens Community College
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Github Skills (86)
mobile-development10
swipeview10
javascript10
animation10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
video-editing10
android10
mobile10
tabbar10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
frontend10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
learn-co-students/dumbo-web-062419
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 12 pushes in 17 days
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