About Kevin English
Who is Kevin English?
Kevin has spent more than 20 years in the software trenches, building everything from polished product features to the behind-the-scenes systems that keep large platforms humming. His toolkit includes Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript and TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, geospatial data, cloud infrastructure, and a healthy appreciation for APIs that behave themselves.
Most recently, Kevin has led backend architecture and data engineering at Dataplor, developing high-scale SaaS APIs, containerized workflows, and geospatial pipelines that process hundreds of millions of records. Before that, he served as a Staff Full-Stack Engineer at Housecall Pro, where he led engineers, shaped product roadmaps, improved data integrations, and helped launch a virtual-assistant product. He has also built a large-scale website migration system for Disney and delivered projects for Riot Games, Janssen Healthcare Innovations, Gazelle/ecoATM, and other organizations.
Kevin is based in South Lake Tahoe, California, but he’s a seasoned remote collaborator who can work with teams just about anywhere. Earlier in his career, he was active in SanDiego.js and SDRuby, presenting at meetups and sharing what he learned from the coding trenches.
Kevin earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii. While living in Hawaii, he also taught Ruby on Rails at the Pacific New Media Center—because apparently building software all day wasn’t enough Ruby.
Around the web
Kevin’s specialty is Ruby on Rails, React.js, Javascript while he dabbles in Phoenix/Elixir on the side. In the past, Kevin has worked with Big Data using Python and Go.
