I'm Kevin (he/him). I'm from London 🇬🇧 but now live in Berlin 🇩🇪.
By day I work as a Senior Developer Advocate at Apify teaching developers how to reliably scrape data from the web. By night, I run a hackathon consultancy focused on research & development, and help devtools companies with their developer experience through community, education, and tooling work which I've been doing since 2014.
- GitHub, as a Senior Enterprise Developer Advocate helping developers get the most out of the GitHub platform. Also through being part of the team running GitHub Campus Experts.
- Directus, as Director of Developer Experience, owning education, community, and the extensions ecosystem.
- Deepgram, as a Senior Developer Advocate heading developer education initiatives to help people build with Voice AI.
- Orbit, as a Developer Advocate to help community builders better understand their groups.
- Vonage, as a Developer Advocate to help developers build with communication APIs.
- You Got This, as Director to help people build better core skills to navigate work and personal lives.
- Rewired State, as Developer Advocate Engineer to help organizations do more with their data.
- Young Rewired State, as Community Lead to connect and build communities of technical young people across the world.
- Hacksmiths, as President to run student events at the intersection of technology, art, and politics.
I'm also a JavaScript developer, avid Disney fan, board gamer, and collector of vinyl.
- learning to play 🎹 keyboard,
- learning to speak 🗣️ German,
- 🧑🍳 cooking for my friends and I.
is based on Metroid Prime and sometimes shortened to _phzn on other platforms.
Kevin is a Developer Advocate where he helps developers get the most from technology. His previous work includesa decade of developer tooling, education, and community growth. He also runs Hack Labs, a hackathon consultancy focused on research & development, and was previously Director of You Got This, a program centered around core skills education for developers. He is a JavaScript developer, avid boardgamer, tired dad of two amazing kids, and shameless Disney adult. He is based in Berlin despite not drinking beer or liking techno.