Kris Kane
Principal Software Engineer at Vertafore
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKris Kane is a Principal Software Engineer based in Denver with 11 years of experience leading product development teams and shipping distributed microservices on AWS. He mentors engineers, conducts design and code reviews, and still contributes day-to-day code—currently building a greenfield SaaS product using Java/Spring/Postgres backends and a React frontend orchestrated with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. His background includes hands-on teaching of software engineering concepts, which shapes his practical coaching style and emphasis on actionable feedback. Kris’s career path blends nonprofit and instructor roles with progressive engineering positions at Vertafore, giving him a strong aptitude for translating user needs into production-ready systems. He’s comfortable across the full stack and particularly skilled at evolving platform capabilities in cloud-native environments. An oft-overlooked strength is his curriculum-building experience, which informs how he structures team learning and onboarding for complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
iOS Mobile Development in Swift, iOS Mobile Development in Swift at General AssemblyRuby Javascript Ruby on Rails SQL Engineering Empathy, Ruby Javascript Ruby on Rails SQL Engineering Empathy at Dev BootcampB.A. Political Science Governance and Conflict, B.A. Political Science Governance and Conflict at Bates CollegeDevelopment Grass Roots Mobilization, Development Grass Roots Mobilization at Khon Kaen UniversityGithub contributions (5)
SkillDistillery/public
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
alexung/hotspot
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:370 commits in 7 days
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