Summary
Kim Dykeman is a seasoned engineering leader with 25+ years of hands-on software and systems experience and 11 years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as VP of Engineering for Connected Products Software Development in San Francisco. She has a track record of uniting hardware, firmware, mobile, backend, DevOps, and QA teams to deliver consumer and enterprise connected products across companies like Fortune Brands Innovations, Yale & August, Pivotal, and TiVo. Known for turning complex compliance and security challenges into revenue-enabling solutions, she led cross-organizational initiatives at Pivotal that preserved multimillion-dollar deals and strengthened Cloud Foundry security posture. Kim blends architecture-level thinking with pragmatic delivery, having managed global engineering and architecture teams through product integrations, acquisitions, and platform re-architectures. A physics graduate from UC Davis, she approaches problems with a systems mindset and an appetite for listening, learning, and evolving teams as technology and stories change. Beyond titles, she consistently favors cultural and process interventions that scale distributed teams and reduce legal and operational risk.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of California, Davis