earlonrails
Kevin Krauss is an experienced Engineering Manager with over 12 years of experience in the software engineering industry. He currently leads the Production Engineering team at Disney Streaming, where he is responsible for overseeing the development and maintenance of production systems, and ensuring high levels of performance, reliability, and scalability. Kevin's extensive background in software engineering includes experience in full-stack development, architecture design, and team management. He is a strong leader and communicator, with a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget. - ChatGPT
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $0
Hourly rate: $500
Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States
Residency: 🇺🇸 United States
Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Twilio 2018 - 2021
Led engineering for Edge Proxy service, delivering 99.999% availability by architecting fully automated load testing and autoscaling solutions. Partnered with stakeholders to define SLOs/SLIs and timelines, ensuring alignment across product and platform teams. Mentored junior engineers and EICs, resulting in two promotions within the team.
Senior Software Engineer
GoPro 2014 - 2018
Architected AWS-based infrastructure (ECS, ELB, VPC) using Terraform, supporting high-traffic consumer applications. Transitioned legacy Ruby on Rails services to Golang microservices, improving performance by 30%. Designed a social graph service with Neo4j, enabling scalable user interaction tracking.
Senior Software Engineer
Telmate 2010 - 2014
Pioneered CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment times by 50%. Developed scalable admin tools for remote system management, saving hundreds of tech hours annually. Innovated new ways to verify users identities at a POS kiosk using a passport reader relates to the Social/Economical Graph patent.
Skills
golang
javascript
rust
english