Kevin Williams
Engineering Manager, Gateway
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarKevin Williams is an engineering manager with 8 years of experience leading front-end teams and building customer-facing web applications, currently managing Gateway engineering at Kong Inc. He has a strong background in TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and CI/CD from eight years at StackPath where he scaled teams, operationalized product vision, and delivered a modern testing and release pipeline. Earlier roles show deep practical experience in PHP-driven web platforms and APIs for high-traffic systems—ranging from CDN control panels to a large regional reservations system—demonstrating both product and operational ownership. Based in Huntington Beach, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, emphasizing inclusiveness, continuous improvement, and stakeholder collaboration. Notably, he has repeatedly taken legacy PHP codebases to modern web stacks and production-ready pipelines while sustaining team morale through structured rituals and coaching.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (34)
api-management10
kubernetes10
docker10
artificial-intelligence10
reverse-proxy10
load-balancing10
kong-plugin10
luajit10
consul10
iot10
api10
gateway10
api-gateway10
ai10
golang10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kevwilliams/j-service
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:18 pushes in 28 days
kevwilliams/React-JPlayer
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.