Kyle Schoonover
Director Of Software Engineering at Sono Bello
Lakewood, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Schoonover is a pragmatic software engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on development experience and seven years in senior management, currently directing engineering at Sono Bello from Lakewood, WA. He blends full-stack C# expertise with cloud-native architectures—having led migrations to AWS, containerization with ECS Fargate, and serverless integrations—while championing CI/CD, DevOps practices, and metrics-driven delivery. At GlobalSpec and Nordstrom he built and mentored distributed onshore/offshore teams, introduced RICE prioritization, and drove measurable improvements in throughput and customer-facing outcomes. A long-time contributor to Apache Avro’s C# implementation, he brings practical open-source experience improving serialization robustness and test coverage. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical trade-offs into product-aligned roadmaps and to modernize legacy stacks into scalable, observability-first systems. He thrives at the intersection of hands-on engineering and strategic team-building, favoring continuous learning and incremental, high-impact wins.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Western Governors University
Github Skills (9)
net10
asp-net10
avro10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
documentation9
code-generation8
testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/avro
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 reviews, 88 commits, 89 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the C# codebase of the Apache Avro project, focusing on improving the C# implementation. Their work involved updating exception handling, refining XML documentation, and correcting code formatting and styling issues in the `AvroDecimal` and `CodeGen` classes. They also made code improvements and addressed deprecated method calls, and added code coverage to the test suite. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to enums and fixed various minor bugs and formatting errors.
avrobigdatadotnetpythonrust
KyleSchoonover/avro
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Contributions:155 pushes, 101 branches in 3 months
avroserializationapachedata-serializationjava
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