Kevin Rickard
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Rickard is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with a decade of engineering experience focused on IoT and cloud-native systems. He builds and operates production edge software for Greengrass and led major overhauls of the IoT Device Tester tooling, spanning frontend UX (TypeScript/React) to backend services (Golang, AWS infra). A pragmatic mentor, he has onboarded and coached multiple interns and junior engineers into full contributors and even helped an intern transition to a full-time AWS role. Kevin blends hands-on incident ownership of public AWS services with product-driven design—prioritizing customer metrics and observability to reduce operational load. His background includes full-stack and data-focused internships where he shipped integrations, analytics, and developer-facing reference projects, reflecting a habit of turning prototypes into production-ready tooling.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (21)
github-api9
python8
api8
github-bot8
pygithub7
github6
github-api-v36
save5
gradle5
screensaver5
apple-tv4
streaming4
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java3
sony2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
KevinRickard/CS321-2018F-002
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 6 days
KevinRickard/dotfiles
Sep 2019 - May 2020
:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 months
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