Summary
Kevin Zuern is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building event-driven microservices and production-ready platforms using Go, Java, and Python. Currently a Software Development Engineer III at Amazon, he combines backend architecture, DevOps automation, and Linux ops to reduce deployment risk and accelerate delivery. He has a track record of eliminating manual testing through CI-driven pipelines, designing blue-green deployments for zero-downtime releases, and instituting code quality practices that measurably lowered defect rates. Past roles include building a clinical data lake and rapid virtual care platform at University Health Network and saving six-figure monthly costs through test automation and service virtualization at RBC. Kevin pairs technical depth with a systems-thinking mindset—introducing Confluence adoption and dependency-injection patterns to improve team documentation and testability. Outside of work he channels discipline from martial arts into hiking, canoe tripping, and music.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Gravenhurst High School
Bachelor of Computing Cognitive Science (Honours), Bachelor of Computing Cognitive Science (Honours) at Queen's University
English, German