Kinn Juliao is a results-oriented VP of Engineering with 14 years of hands-on and executive experience building global, cross-functional engineering organizations and shipping large-scale assessment and education products. Currently leading 21 product teams and 163 engineers at Prometric, he turned around an $8M budget overrun while reinvesting savings to accelerate hiring and regional expansion across five continents. He combines deep technical roots—early career as a PHP/Java developer and open-source contributions to projects like PHPCI—with modern cloud-native practice, having introduced containers and Kubernetes to drive scalability. Kinn champions people-first leadership, implementing mentorship, career ladders, and squad/guild structures that align engineering execution to strategic business outcomes. He also directs AI-driven R&D (computer vision for cheating detection and LLMs for content generation), demonstrating a pragmatic blend of innovation and delivery. Known for moving stalled programs forward, he excels at turning complex technical debt into repeatable, measurable throughput gains.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Web Security Linux System Administration, Web Security Linux System Administration at 4Linux
College Computer Programming, College Computer Programming at Sociedade Paranaense de Ensino e Informática
PHPCI is a free and open source continuous integration tool specifically designed for PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kinn contributed to the PHPCI project by fixing Strict Standards notices, which indicates they were involved in code quality improvements. They also validated the existence of a GitHub token and implemented a shell plugin, showcasing an understanding of session management and build process customization. Furthermore, the user contributed to merging branches and adding a missing plugin variable within the build view.
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Kinn Juliao - Vice President Of Engineering at Prometric