Kevin Swiber
Founder at Layered System
California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Swiber is a founder and seasoned developer-experience engineer with 16 years of experience building API tools, gateways, and developer platforms—from early work at Apigee to creating Express Gateway and the Siren hypermedia spec. He now leads Pointbreak, connecting AI coding assistants to IDE debuggers so tools like Copilot and Cursor can reason with real execution data rather than guesswork. Kevin blends hands-on open-source contributions (notably to Express Gateway and IoT platform Zetta) with strategic API product and developer-relations work at Postman and as an advisor to Stripe. His expertise spans API strategy, distributed systems, and runtime observability, informed by a career of shipping production systems and tooling for developer confidence. Based in Santa Cruz, he’s often teaching, continuously learning, and assembling a technical advisory board to scale Pointbreak from early adopters to broad developer adoption.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Salmen High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
apim10
api-rest10
javascript10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
command-line-interface10
microservices-application10
websocket10
api10
api-gateway10
command-line10
rest-api10
nodejs10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
zettajs/zetta
Apr 2014 - Apr 2017
An API-first, open source software platform for the Internet of Things.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 212 commits, 36 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the development of a registration resource, likely for device discovery and management within the IoT platform. They implemented logic for handling device registration requests, including parsing JSON payloads, interacting with scout services, and managing driver functionalities. The contributions included code changes across multiple files, including the addition of a registration resource and the modification of bootstrapper and scout files. The user also implemented support for a remote peer connection to allow for communication.
apimqttapi-firstinternetopen-source-software
ExpressGateway/express-gateway
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
A microservices API Gateway built on top of Express.js
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 44 commits, 54 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the CLI functionality and overall developer experience for the Express Gateway project. Their commits involved refactoring the CLI, adding commands for managing users, apps, and gateways. They implemented testing for the CLI, integrated Yeoman for generator support, and incorporated the creation of a getting-started template. Furthermore, the user contributed to API implementation for plugins, the creation of a load balancer, and general CLI improvements.
api-gatewayexpressendpointsoauth2-serverservice-discovery
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