Kevin Meredith
Technical Lead at Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
United States
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Top SchoolKevin Meredith is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient Scala-based back-end systems for enterprise finance and hospitality platforms. He blends hands-on engineering with architecture and team leadership, having led migrations, performance tuning, Prometheus-based observability, and emergency production fixes at Jack Henry and Caesars. A prolific contributor to prominent open-source Scala projects like http4s, sttp and spire, he has improved HTTP client observability and strengthened numeric and cookie handling primitives used widely by the community. Kevin’s work often focuses on reducing operational toil—examples include a proxy service that saved hundreds of developer hours and instrumenting SQL/Redis stacks for reliability under load. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Villanova and an M.Eng from UPenn, pairing formal engineering training with a pragmatic, production-first mindset. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that improve testability and monitoring as much as feature delivery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Villanova UniversityMasters of Engineering, Masters of Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (36)
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observability10
data-collection10
algebra10
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http10
data-structure10
akka-http10
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prometheus10
data-structures10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
http4s/http4s
Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 143 commits, 75 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the core functionality of the http4s library by modifying cookie handling, including separating request and response cookies and fixing compilation issues related to cookie classes. They also updated and expanded the testing suite to reflect these changes. Furthermore, the user added query parameter encoders and decoders for the Instant data type and provided a way to exclude certain paths in the metrics.
idiomatichttp-clientscalafs2typelevel
typelevel/spire
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Powerful new number types and numeric abstractions for Scala.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 65 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the `spire` library, focusing on the implementation of `===` (equality) methods for various numerical types within the project. They added these methods to classes such as `Algebraic`, `Number`, `Natural`, `Complex`, `FixedPoint`, and `Quaternion`, as well as their respective sub-types. Further, they updated `equals` methods to utilize `===` where appropriate and added `!=` implementations to provide a more complete set of equality operations. This work primarily centered around core mathematical data structures.
abstractionsscalafunctional-programming
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