Kevin Dietz

About Kevin Dietz

Ask Me Anything - Schedule a Call Here : http://tinyurl.com/2x2cb9rs(p.s. It\'s Free)I am a seasoned technology leader, software architect, and developer with over 25 years of diverse industry experience in both startups and large corporations. As a visionary, I bring a unified approach to software development with a heavy emphasis on problem solving and customer empathy. I believe in designing software around intuitive, user-discoverable paradigms, rather than viewing a software product as a bag full of disparate features.Cloud native computing is a powerful and exciting platform that can help client\'s achiever never-before-possible advances in computing power, scalability, and economies of scale. I\'m excited about the power of cloud computing and endeavor to stay abreast of the latest advances in the space.I\'m keenly interested in developer happiness and productivity. My ultimate dream is to build the world\'s best developer productivity platform featuring the operational management capabilities of Backstage, the cross repository code searching functions of SourceGraph, the ubiquity of Markdown documentation, the API documentation of Swagger, and the interactivity of Jupyter Notebooks.Founder of OpenSquigglyhttps://opensquiggly.comTools to make software developers lives betterSummary of Qualifications:* C#/.NET Framework.NET Core, LINQ and Entity Framework* JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Angular, React, Bootstrap* C++, Java, Ruby, Python* Database schema design in Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDb* Skilled in test-driven development, clean coding, and effective refactoring of legacy systems* Agile methodologies with in-depth understanding of product lifecycles, scrum, user story writing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment

Experience

1. Principal Developer

   Atlassian

   Nov 2018 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   Principal Developer, Confluence Cloud - Part 2In many cases I researched difficult projects and problem areas of the code that had not yet been solved. When no prior engineers or functional specifications were available, I reverse engineered the functionality by tracing through the source code and making recommendations or bug fixes as appropriate.I wrote a prototype of a popup editor to solve the problem of managing nested content within Confluence pages. Handling nested, hierarchical content is a particularly thorny problem to solve in rich text editors, and thus demonstrating potential solutions to this problem was of benefit to the business and our customers.I was instrumental in introducing Atlassian to the SourceGraph code search engine and was actively involved in managing the trial process and writing the purchasing proposal. This has the potential to greatly enhance developer productivity within Atlassian.Technologies used: React, Redux, GraphQL, legacy JavaScript code using the internal AUI and AJS frameworks and jQuery, and TypeScript, Jest and other testing frameworks

Education

• Michigan Technological University

  BSEE, Electrical / Computer Engineering

  1983 — 1987

• Michigan Technological University

  MSCS, Computer Science

  1988 — 1990

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Software Configuration Management
• Software Design
• Xml
• Integration
• Continuous Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Visual Studio
• C#
• .net
• Testing
• Software Documentation
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Javascript
• Defect Tracking
• Unit Testing
• Tfs