Kevin Old
Director Of Engineering at Dorvie, Inc
White House, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Old is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building full-stack and developer-experience products, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Dorvie, Inc. He blends hands-on backend expertise in GraphQL, serverless AWS patterns and TypeScript with product leadership honed at AWS Amplify and Cypress.io. Kevin has scaled teams and developer tooling—growing a DX team quickly at Cypress and authoring Real World App examples and tests used broadly by the community. His open-source work includes serverless GraphQL examples and contributions to the Cypress Real World App, demonstrating a focus on auth, testing, and scalable APIs. Based in White House, Tennessee, he moves fluidly between coding, technical writing, and public developer outreach from conference talks to docs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who prefers shipping durable developer experiences over flashy demos.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
cypress10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
aws-lambda10
authentication10
user-authentication10
wpgraphql10
amazon-dynamodb10
api10
dynamodb10
wordpress-graphql10
serverless-framework10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
A payment application to demonstrate real-world usage of Cypress testing methods, patterns, and workflows.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 225 reviews, 103 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the development of backend API endpoints and related testing infrastructure, including the implementation of user authentication and authorization. They also worked on creating a user model and setting up the groundwork for API testing. In addition, the user added Cypress tests for API endpoints and refactored existing test files. Their contributions also include adding search functionality to the API.
payment-applicationwaitend-to-end-testingcypress-testingtesting
serverless/serverless-graphql-blog
Jan 2016 - May 2016
A Serverless Blog leveraging GraphQL to offer a REST API with only 1 endpoint using Serverless v0.5
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on building out the back-end functionality of a serverless blog using GraphQL. They implemented GraphQL schemas for posts, authors, and comments, integrating with a DynamoDB database to store and retrieve data. Additionally, the user added mutation support for creating posts, and refactored the codebase to use ES6 and support introspection queries.
apiserverless-applicationsleveragingserverlessaws-lambda
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