Kevin Tew
Chief Software Architect at Coreform
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Tew is a Chief Software Architect and serial founder with 19 years of experience blending research-grade programming language work and fast-paced product development. As Co-Founder and current architect at Coreform, he transforms advanced research into practical software while championing rapid prototyping, bootstrapping, and systems automation. His academic background—including a PhD focus on dynamic language runtimes, garbage collection, and JIT—underpins contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Parrot and Racket, where he improved VM language grammars, message passing, and runtime memory/thread handling. He teaches and researches applied computing, having been an assistant professor and built infrastructure for v-CAx and computational social science. Comfortable moving between low-level runtime internals and startup pragmatism, he is known for shipping prototypes that de-risk long-term technical bets. Based in Provo, Utah, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a deep commitment to sharing knowledge through open source and teaching.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
racket10
grammar10
programming-language10
compiler-design10
grammars10
parrot10
virtual-machine10
text-parsing10
parsing10
concurrency10
garbage-collection10
internals9
memory-management9
compiler9
nodejs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
racket/racket
Sep 2008 - May 2022
The Racket repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:570 commits, 1 PR in 13 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Racket codebase by modifying and improving low-level features. Their work focused on enhancements to the places feature, including handling of memory accounting, thread management, and channel communications. The user made adjustments and additions to support message passing, and made code fixes within various aspects of the compiler internals.
code-golfschemepolyglotlanguage-designprogramming-languages
parrot/parrot
Jul 2006 - Feb 2011
Parrot Virtual Machine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:279 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the Parrot Virtual Machine by implementing and refining a Cardinal implementation. They focused on the language's grammar and rules, introducing new features like if/else statements, begin/end blocks, and support for functions. The work involved modifying grammar rules and associated code to parse various cardinal constructs accurately.
parrotvirtual-machine
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