Kyle Anderson
Director, Software Engineering at Zappos Family of Companies
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Anderson is a Director of Software Engineering with 11 years of experience building scalable Elixir web applications and cloud-native APIs, currently leading engineering at Zappos in Las Vegas. He combines hands-on backend development—contributing DynamoDB stream and batch-write support to the popular ex_aws Elixir AWS client—with operational expertise in Docker, CI/CD, ECS, CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk. Kyle has a strong history of integrating enterprise systems from his PeopleSoft and campus IT roles, translating complex requirements into reliable APIs and automation. He champions accessibility and developer ergonomics by adding lint rules and training teams to ship more inclusive code. Comfortable switching between code, infrastructure, and people leadership, he approaches technical problems as solvable challenges and prioritizes practical, auditable solutions. His background blending an MBA, theater BA, and stage/operations experience gives him a rare mix of systems thinking, communication skills, and operational calm.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Marketing Consulting, MBA Marketing Consulting at University at Buffalo School of Management, The State University of New YorkBA Theatre, BA Theatre at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (8)
dynamodb10
back-end-development10
elixir10
aws-dynamodb10
testing9
ias8
authentication7
user-authentication7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ex-aws/ex_aws
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
A flexible, easy to use set of clients AWS APIs for Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed primarily to the back-end functionality of the `ex_aws` repository, specifically focusing on DynamoDB integration. Their work involved implementing features related to DynamoDB streams, including the ability to list and describe streams, and retrieve records. They also implemented features for DynamoDB operations such as batch writing and fixing IAM role detection. Their contributions improved the library's interaction with AWS DynamoDB.
elixirawsclientsaws-clientsflexible
kyleaa/docker
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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