Kevin Van Leer
Managing Director, Head Of Engineering at Self-employed
Greater St. Louis United States
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Top SchoolKevin Van Leer is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as Managing Director and Head of Engineering at North Capital while consulting independently. He specializes in driving first-time quality through Agile practices, continuous integration, and clear acceptance criteria, having led teams across startups and large organizations including Boeing and Conduce. Kevin has repeatedly bridged product and engineering as a CTO and product manager, improving development discipline, documentation, and cross-functional communication to accelerate delivery. His background spans hands-on engineering in C++, Python, JavaScript and functional languages, plus building distributed teams and product roadmaps for international markets. Based in Greater St. Louis, he combines startup pragmatism—co-founding and advising early-stage ventures—with enterprise rigor from aerospace systems work. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s known for translating complex technical constraints into actionable product decisions that reduce rework and unblock teams.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering; Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering; Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAssociate of Science Electrical Engineering, Associate of Science Electrical Engineering at East Central College
English
Stackoverflow
995reputation
80kreached
30answers
2questions
Github Skills (46)
autocomplete10
geocoder9
language-server-protocol9
windows9
android9
checker9
geocoding9
language-server9
neovim-plugin9
macos8
linting8
flutter8
cross-platform8
vim8
geopandas8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kevinvanleer/resume
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 3 months
kevinvanleer/cyclotrack
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:989 commits, 114 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 1 month
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