Kevin Olson is a search marketing leader with 13 years of experience specializing in digital advertising, SEO, and performance strategies for automotive dealers and enterprise clients. As Director of Search Marketing at Dealer Alchemist, he blends hands-on technical skills with strategic leadership to improve paid search, organic visibility, and reputation management across complex implementations. His background spans roles from analyst to manager, giving him deep operational expertise in campaign execution, tooling, and cross-channel activation. Kevin also contributes to open-source developer projects—ranging from front-end CSS tooling to PHP error handling—demonstrating a curiosity for code and UX beyond pure marketing. He favors pragmatic, triple-bottom-line decision-making that balances people, profit, and planet, and leverages dual citizenship as a potential asset for international work. Based in Seattle with a BA in Business Marketing, he pairs data-driven rigor with practical creativity to drive measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Business Marketing, Bachelor of Arts Degree, Business Marketing at Seattle University
Contributions:12 reviews, 341 commits, 40 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on front-end development, integrating Bulma and Material Design Icons (MDI) into the project. They reorganized the directory structure and made further adjustments, including removing Tailwind CSS. They also elaborated on the user interface, particularly with the implementation of a modal example and improvements to the styling. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience.
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to the "whoops" PHP error handling library. Their work included addressing syntax highlighting issues, optimizing the display of code snippets, and refactoring code for clarity. They also implemented a feature for formatting the error output to comply with the JSON:API specification and made several minor code adjustments, including removing unused variables.
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Kevin Olson - Director Of Search Marketing at Dealer Alchemist