Kevin Prichard
Self Employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorKevin Prichard is a seasoned freelance software engineer in San Francisco with 12+ years building scalable web, mobile, and distributed systems across startups and large media/enterprise organizations. He’s a full‑stack polyglot (PHP, Python/Django/GAE, Java, C/C++, JS) with deep expertise in mobile and HTML5, content management, search, recommender systems and applied statistics. His career includes leading NYTimes.com video and personalization platforms, shipping games and mobile apps at Zynga, and driving full‑stack engineering at Hipmunk, Castlight and Newsela. Kevin combines hands‑on implementation with algorithmic rigor—collaborative filtering, semantic analysis and performance optimization are recurring strengths. Currently freelancing, he focuses on refactors, migrations and making systems “scale super-nice,” often bridging product needs with pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. An eclectic technologist, he’s also tackled IoT sensor design and early real-time search/indexer work, showing breadth beyond typical web engineering.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese
Stackoverflow
165reputation
15kreached
9answers
1question
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cyberdelia/kales
May 2015 - Oct 2023
A modern OpenCalais client
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 6 months
tomhiggins/anyfesto
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019
Low cost Raspberry Pi /Linux based access point with audio, education and communications local content server. Inspired by the ideas of sharing with others. Anyfesto - a platform from which to speak.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 comment, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
sharinglow-costpiirc-serverraspberry-pi
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