Kevin Pierce
Co-Founder & CTO at PerkUp
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Pierce is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at PerkUp, bringing nearly two decades of startup-driven engineering experience across infrastructure, backend APIs, and release management. He led Picatic’s engineering through multiple cloud migrations and an acquisition by Eventbrite, and has hands-on expertise from rack-mounted silicon to Kubernetes, Go, and asynchronous App Engine tooling he pioneered in 2010. Known as a software generalist, Kevin blends big-picture product thinking with low-level systems knowledge—designing scalable event ticketing platforms, migration strategies, and comprehensive caching and observability approaches. He values tooling and process efficiency, practices essentialism in production, and has repeatedly partnered with product and marketing to align technical choices with long-term cost and scaling considerations. Based in Vancouver, he pairs engineering management experience with deep technical execution, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams or shipping critical platform code.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Software Engineering, Computer Science Software Engineering at University of Saskatchewan
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Github contributions (5)
jkpierce/deep-compression
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
espin-2021/slopes-channels
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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