Kevin Ran
Senior Software Engineer at Adobe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ran is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 13 years of hands-on experience building back-end systems, automation, and developer tooling. He thrives on removing manual steps from workflows—if someone still has to "push a button," he considers the job unfinished—and applies that mindset to production systems and open-source contributions alike. At Adobe since 2012 he has focused on robust, maintainable solutions, and his work on Composer’s self-update rollback logic shows attention to resilience and user experience in widely used developer tools. Comfortable across platforms and languages, Kevin pairs a CS and math background with a pragmatic, sometimes irreverent coding style and a passion for climbing when he’s not optimizing pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA/BS, Mathematics, Computer Science, BA/BS, Mathematics, Computer Science at SUNY Binghamton (Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science)
Chinese
Github Skills (8)
dependency-manager10
command-line-interface10
filesystem10
file-management10
php10
composer10
cli10
command-line10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
composer/composer
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Dependency Manager for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on the `SelfUpdateCommand` within the Composer dependency manager, enhancing its functionality and robustness. Their contributions involved initial groundwork for rollback functionality, including saving and restoring previous versions of the `composer.phar` file. Subsequent commits refined the rollback process, ensuring only one snapshot is used and providing the ability to clean old snapshots. These changes improved the stability and user experience of the composer self-update process.
phppackage-managerdependency-managerpackagescomposer
behance/docker-aws-s3-downloader
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 9 months
utilarbitrarydockeraws-s3aws
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