My name is Kevin and I'm passionate about the web. I've been building web applications since 1997 and am still in love with building and launching products. I spent 13 years at AOL building gigantic (for the time) web applications for search, feed reading, and several social media apps. After that, I spent 4 years at a startup trying to bring science to the music industry. And now I'm the chief of engineering at a web operations company where I help startups scale from 10 to 10 million users. I love solving
What am I looking for? I'm a big fan of ROWE, remote work, and agile processes like Scrum and Kanban (and choosing the right one for the job). I'd love to help build a development team and build awesome stuff together.
I've spent my entire career at three companies: AOL (1995-2008), Music Intelligence Solutions (2008 - 2012) and Rails Machine (2012-present). I "grew up" at AOL, starting in technical support over a summer break from school. I was learning so much and having too much fun to go back to school, so I stayed. I ended up working in the PrimeHost queue (AOL's small business web hosting company), where I was given my own web server with full scripting access (Tcl) and a relational database to play with (Illustra).