I am a hardworking person who enjoys solving problems. I enjoy programming, and write free, open source software in my free time. I have experience working in teams as a force multiplier with expertise in designing, implementing and maintaining reliable, performant and efficient systems.Offer Guidelines
I am open to interesting opportunities but receive an overwhelming number of low-quality bulk offers. Please observe the following rules or I will ignore your offer:
- The offer must be personalized. Reference my current work and my website (kevincox.ca).
- Do not send more than one email. Trust me, I got it. Assuming that you are following these rules I will respond, even if just to say that I am not interested. If you are sure you are following these rules feel free to send a single follow up after at least 30 days. Other than this exception all ping, reminder or "to make sure this didn't get caught in your spam filter" emails will be reported as spam.
- Please do not contact me with cryptocurrency and blockchain related offers. I'm sorry, but please realize that this industry is mostly scams and I can not invest the time to thoroughly investigate each company that reaches out.
Work Experience
Founding Engineer, Plato
December 2022 - April 2024
- Architecture design and full-stack software development of the Plato no-code platform.
Founder, FeedMail
November 2021 - Present
- Created and operated FeedMail.
Various Contributions, Nix
September 2016 - Present
- nixpkgs committer.
- Member of the Nix RFC Steering Committee.
Engineering, Yugabyte
April 2021 - November 2022
- Architected, implemented and launched Yugabyte's hosted database servicecloud.yugabyte.com
- After launch drove implementation of many capability, reliability and cost improvements.
- Improving incident response procedures to reduce impact of incidents.
- Advising the design of critical storage systems to improve reliability.
- Implementing automated disaster recovery and test environment management to provide faster recovery of unexpected disasters and improving developer velocity.
Senior SRE, Google
August 2016 - February 2020
- Improved resource usage and reduced latency variance for a number of Google Ads services.
- Drove the development and adoption of standardized set of release tooling across Google Ads.
- Lead training of new SREs in the EMEA training hub.
Older Experience
Software Developer, Shopify
May 2015 - April 2016
- I worked with Shopify's Data Team where we built and maintained tools to analyze Shopfiy's many data sources. These tools were used by our data scientists to create valuable insights for the company.
- Over the summer I worked with both the Wireshark and Ceph projects to add Ceph protocol dissection support to Wireshark. The project was successful and the code is now part of the Wireshark project.
Skills
- Expert in distributed systems, especially knowledge in designing reliable and performant systems.
- Top level software developer, including the design of maintainable code bases as well as solid understanding of complex algorithms.
- Strong ability to select the correct balance between cost and effort. Including scoping out roadmaps and prioritizing the highest impact work.
As an enthusiast I have a wide knowledge of many tools and systems such that it is impractical to list them all here. Just let me know what technologies you use when you reach out and I can describe my experience level.