Kevin Goslar Email & Phone Number

Fayetteville, AR, US

• Lead a popular open-source product across the full lifecycle: prototype, production, long-term support
• 2700 GitHub stars, 52 contributors, authored 2800 pull requests
• handled 900 backlog items
• perform large-scale modernizations on 66.000 lines of code

San Francisco, California, US

• Managed all community contributions to GitLab's CI product
• Implemented several features in GitLab's code review automation (@gitlab-bot)
• Part of the 7% staff layoff as the company changed focus to AI

Scottsdale, Arizona, US

• As part of the community engagement team, I made the technology stack, documentation, and organization friendlier for first-time contributors and helped with customer support, community engagement, and sales.
• increased automation
• performed large-scale code cleanup across 70 code repositories
• improved developer documentation and code examples

Los Angeles, CA, US

Guest Lecturer at LMU's Computer Science class

Los Angeles, California, US

• As the most senior Individual Contributor within the organization, developed and implemented unified technology strategy and vision for company-wide software and application development processes and procedures..
• Ideated, developed prototypes, and productionized strategic company-wide software development framework that reduces cost of software projects by 30% through code reuse. Subsequent projects focused on process.
• Point of Contact for internal teams and departments utilizing system, including setup, user training, and feature development tailored to individual project and team requirements.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Oversaw all Engineering Department affairs and activities; grew department from 35 to 65 headcount, including mentoring 5 Senior Engineers to Director-level.
• Grew open-source presence 800% through initial hands-on contributions, presentations, and improved guidelines for extracting open-source components out of commercial software.
• Technical Executive on large Digital Transformation initiatives

Los Angeles, California, US

• As Servant Leader modernized organizational footprint including engineering best practices, training courses, site redesign, etc. Oversaw all of engineering in 3 offices, doubled headcount to a diverse group of 35.
• Successful hands-on Technical Lead for varied Agile software projects. Liaised with clients and internal teams for requirements assessments, developing project scope, code & data architecture, development.
• Improved engineering culture by introducing automated testing, code reviews, and open-source program.

Railsgirls, RG, FI

Inspiring women to find their passion for developing software and start a career in tech

As first Engineering team member for entertainment start-up, hired, onboarded, and trained 8 local/remote developers into cohesive, high-performance Development Team. Performed 1200 code reviews. Technologies utilized: Ruby on Rails, AWS, SQL.

Technical Lead for startup incubator; oversaw 10 Developers and 3 Interns. Focused on turnaround strategies for underperforming startup projects. Fixed technical problems, optimized scheduling and time management practices, team development and growth. Technologies utilized: Ruby on Rails, SOLR, SQL.

Mountain View, CA, US

Took ownership of storage management system for GMail, Google Drive, and Google Photos, serving 50 million monthly visitors and hosting billions of photos. Improved functionality, performance, security, and performed maintenance. Operated Google booth at trade shows. Technologies used: Java, JavaScript, Google Cloud Platform.

Phd, Information Management For Internet Of Things

Master Of Science - Ms, Business & Computer Science