Kevin Rood
Director, Software Engineering at Instructure
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKevin Rood is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15+ years building and shipping enterprise and SaaS products, currently directing AI-focused engineering at Instructure. He blends hands-on full‑stack experience in Ruby on Rails, .NET, TypeScript/Node and React with a proven track record of driving features from design through production and 24/7 operational support. Kevin is a pragmatic coach who scales team performance via Scrum, kanban and lean practices while mentoring engineering managers and tech leads. He has repeatedly turned product metrics into business value—leading A/B testing programs that materially increased customer LTV and owning features used by tens of thousands weekly. Comfortable both writing code and shaping architecture, he also partners cross-functionally on FinOps, privacy, and customer support to deliver reliable, cost-conscious systems. Based in Greater Tampa Bay, he’s focused on applying generative AI to improve product experiences and the software delivery lifecycle.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
AA, Media, AA, Media at Hillsborough College
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Github Skills (168)
intellisense10
editor9
visual-studio9
electron9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
vscode9
docker-compose8
dotnet8
core-library8
netcore8
language-service8
tooling8
atom-plugin8
functional-programming8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kevinrood/json_key_transformer_middleware
Sep 2016 - May 2018
Rack middleware which transforms incoming and outgoing JSON keys to support the development of Rails JSON-based APIs.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 7 months
rack-middlewarerailsincomingrackruby
accelecode/ui_interactors
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:112 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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