Kevin Huisman
Chief Technology Officer at Kindly Human- Claim this Profile
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Dingjie (Daniel) Yang
Kevin is a great team player to work with. At Branch, Kevin helped security team to fix a dozen of potential security issues and we worked closely to make sure the higher security standard will not reduce the performance. When working with him, he surprised me on how he could deliver high quality productions by working with different team. I really appreciate the effort and diligence he spend on helping Branch to build a higher security standard.
LinkedIn User
I reported directly to Kevin at Branch and I can tell you that Kevin is one of the most talented and humble individuals I've ever worked with. He was super invested in my growth and provided me with opportunities to learn and level up my skillset. As a manager, he was hands off but acted as a sounding board for many technical decisions and hurdles the team faced. He oversaw the rollout of metric collection for services that moved into our work stream. Doing so gave us insight into how the services were performing and allowed us to brainstorm performance upgrades - he lead the charge on this as well. In addition, he helped code review and triage so many difficult and nuanced issues across the board from dealing with SSO issues, to race conditions in various services, to issues with internal tools that would cause customers lots of pain. At times, he would troubleshoot something to the point where an engineer just needs to make a small code change to get the system working correctly again. As a manager, Kevin can do it all and more importantly he can do it with a smile on his face, an amazing attitude and with genuine interest for your career/growth. I'd love to work with Kevin in the future.
Dingjie (Daniel) Yang
Kevin is a great team player to work with. At Branch, Kevin helped security team to fix a dozen of potential security issues and we worked closely to make sure the higher security standard will not reduce the performance. When working with him, he surprised me on how he could deliver high quality productions by working with different team. I really appreciate the effort and diligence he spend on helping Branch to build a higher security standard.
LinkedIn User
I reported directly to Kevin at Branch and I can tell you that Kevin is one of the most talented and humble individuals I've ever worked with. He was super invested in my growth and provided me with opportunities to learn and level up my skillset. As a manager, he was hands off but acted as a sounding board for many technical decisions and hurdles the team faced. He oversaw the rollout of metric collection for services that moved into our work stream. Doing so gave us insight into how the services were performing and allowed us to brainstorm performance upgrades - he lead the charge on this as well. In addition, he helped code review and triage so many difficult and nuanced issues across the board from dealing with SSO issues, to race conditions in various services, to issues with internal tools that would cause customers lots of pain. At times, he would troubleshoot something to the point where an engineer just needs to make a small code change to get the system working correctly again. As a manager, Kevin can do it all and more importantly he can do it with a smile on his face, an amazing attitude and with genuine interest for your career/growth. I'd love to work with Kevin in the future.
Dingjie (Daniel) Yang
Kevin is a great team player to work with. At Branch, Kevin helped security team to fix a dozen of potential security issues and we worked closely to make sure the higher security standard will not reduce the performance. When working with him, he surprised me on how he could deliver high quality productions by working with different team. I really appreciate the effort and diligence he spend on helping Branch to build a higher security standard.
LinkedIn User
I reported directly to Kevin at Branch and I can tell you that Kevin is one of the most talented and humble individuals I've ever worked with. He was super invested in my growth and provided me with opportunities to learn and level up my skillset. As a manager, he was hands off but acted as a sounding board for many technical decisions and hurdles the team faced. He oversaw the rollout of metric collection for services that moved into our work stream. Doing so gave us insight into how the services were performing and allowed us to brainstorm performance upgrades - he lead the charge on this as well. In addition, he helped code review and triage so many difficult and nuanced issues across the board from dealing with SSO issues, to race conditions in various services, to issues with internal tools that would cause customers lots of pain. At times, he would troubleshoot something to the point where an engineer just needs to make a small code change to get the system working correctly again. As a manager, Kevin can do it all and more importantly he can do it with a smile on his face, an amazing attitude and with genuine interest for your career/growth. I'd love to work with Kevin in the future.
Dingjie (Daniel) Yang
Kevin is a great team player to work with. At Branch, Kevin helped security team to fix a dozen of potential security issues and we worked closely to make sure the higher security standard will not reduce the performance. When working with him, he surprised me on how he could deliver high quality productions by working with different team. I really appreciate the effort and diligence he spend on helping Branch to build a higher security standard.
LinkedIn User
I reported directly to Kevin at Branch and I can tell you that Kevin is one of the most talented and humble individuals I've ever worked with. He was super invested in my growth and provided me with opportunities to learn and level up my skillset. As a manager, he was hands off but acted as a sounding board for many technical decisions and hurdles the team faced. He oversaw the rollout of metric collection for services that moved into our work stream. Doing so gave us insight into how the services were performing and allowed us to brainstorm performance upgrades - he lead the charge on this as well. In addition, he helped code review and triage so many difficult and nuanced issues across the board from dealing with SSO issues, to race conditions in various services, to issues with internal tools that would cause customers lots of pain. At times, he would troubleshoot something to the point where an engineer just needs to make a small code change to get the system working correctly again. As a manager, Kevin can do it all and more importantly he can do it with a smile on his face, an amazing attitude and with genuine interest for your career/growth. I'd love to work with Kevin in the future.
Experience
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Kindly Human
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United States
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Mental Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Jan 2022 - Present
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Senior Director of Development
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Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
Answering the call for behavioral health benefits.
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Branch
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United States
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Software Development
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400 - 500 Employee
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Engineering Manager
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Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
I joined Branch as part of an acqui-hire. The first eight months I focused on individual contributor duties and driving feature parity on Branch systems with the goal of migrating all clients within those eight months. In the remaining time I served as a more traditional engineering manager, owning parts of UI infrastructure and various products through shared systems. This unique evolution allowed me to get hands-on experience with the systems I would eventually own.… Show more I joined Branch as part of an acqui-hire. The first eight months I focused on individual contributor duties and driving feature parity on Branch systems with the goal of migrating all clients within those eight months. In the remaining time I served as a more traditional engineering manager, owning parts of UI infrastructure and various products through shared systems. This unique evolution allowed me to get hands-on experience with the systems I would eventually own. Product-focused impact: - Various roles in architecting, project managing, and coding user organization management, and granting third-party access to various entities within our platform - Improving UX and user workflows related to data sharing - Owned and improved user authentication and authorization systems, including SSO integration with various IDPs - Maintenance and improvement over web-to app product Engineer and architecture impact: - Spearheaded book clubs and lead groups focused on improving the craft of engineering, and the shared systems we contributed to - Evangelized and successfully improved better endpoint and data design requirements and patterns across multiple teams and systems - Worked with design, product and engineering teams to select and adopt an open source design system and accompanying component library, including library upgrades and infrastructure necessary to begin consuming components - Ownership and scale improvements on multiple services suffering lack of institutional knowledge and increased demand failure states Team impact: - Spun up a new team, implementing typical agile processes, and fostering shared knowledge over systems and tasks - Focused heavily on individual’s career growth, promoting engineering excellence and skills improvement. - Encouraged and successfully improved senior to junior mentorship and feedback, including cross-team coaching and skills improvement Show less I joined Branch as part of an acqui-hire. The first eight months I focused on individual contributor duties and driving feature parity on Branch systems with the goal of migrating all clients within those eight months. In the remaining time I served as a more traditional engineering manager, owning parts of UI infrastructure and various products through shared systems. This unique evolution allowed me to get hands-on experience with the systems I would eventually own.… Show more I joined Branch as part of an acqui-hire. The first eight months I focused on individual contributor duties and driving feature parity on Branch systems with the goal of migrating all clients within those eight months. In the remaining time I served as a more traditional engineering manager, owning parts of UI infrastructure and various products through shared systems. This unique evolution allowed me to get hands-on experience with the systems I would eventually own. Product-focused impact: - Various roles in architecting, project managing, and coding user organization management, and granting third-party access to various entities within our platform - Improving UX and user workflows related to data sharing - Owned and improved user authentication and authorization systems, including SSO integration with various IDPs - Maintenance and improvement over web-to app product Engineer and architecture impact: - Spearheaded book clubs and lead groups focused on improving the craft of engineering, and the shared systems we contributed to - Evangelized and successfully improved better endpoint and data design requirements and patterns across multiple teams and systems - Worked with design, product and engineering teams to select and adopt an open source design system and accompanying component library, including library upgrades and infrastructure necessary to begin consuming components - Ownership and scale improvements on multiple services suffering lack of institutional knowledge and increased demand failure states Team impact: - Spun up a new team, implementing typical agile processes, and fostering shared knowledge over systems and tasks - Focused heavily on individual’s career growth, promoting engineering excellence and skills improvement. - Encouraged and successfully improved senior to junior mentorship and feedback, including cross-team coaching and skills improvement Show less
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TUNE
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Development Manager
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Oct 2014 - Sep 2018
This role allowed me to transition from senior engineer to full-time people manager, owning various systems and product initiatives across Tune, specializing in UI and mid-stack development for MobileAppTracking, a SaaS performance analytics platform. Product-focused impact: Improving the product and user experience by focusing on a variety of feature and user management areas, including: - Maintaining and improving user and group management, authentication, authorization -… Show more This role allowed me to transition from senior engineer to full-time people manager, owning various systems and product initiatives across Tune, specializing in UI and mid-stack development for MobileAppTracking, a SaaS performance analytics platform. Product-focused impact: Improving the product and user experience by focusing on a variety of feature and user management areas, including: - Maintaining and improving user and group management, authentication, authorization - Delivering UIs and APIs to support cohort and user retention data visualization and export - Architect and PM UIs and backend systems to support fraud controls and real-time fraud restrictions - Responsible for design, and implementation of various partner management and 3rd party data sharing improvements Engineer and architecture impact: Driving architecture changes to improve developer productivity, standardize product lines and cross-team development processes, and improve user and developer experiences. Highlights include: - Adoption of React across all product lines; migration to React within systems I owned - Supporting and evangelizing internal component library development and processes - Building infrastructure to support multiple product acquisitions and disparate product management portals - Migration from monolithic to service-oriented architecture, reducing inter-team friction and deploy impact - Member of Engineering Advisory Board responsible for agreement and adoption of engineering standards across Tune Team impact: Empowering direct reports to improve themselves and the quality of their work, expanding my ability to improve engineering and product quality, fostering inter-team collaboration, and increasing employee engagement: - Focused career development evaluation and thorough roadmaps to employee improvement - Excellent track-record for quality hires - Participated in cross-team working groups to focus on company standards for specific areas of the stack
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Software Engineer
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Sep 2011 - Oct 2014
Full stack developer focusing on UI and supporting systems powering the MobileAppTracking product, a SaaS portal enabling advertisers to manage their marketing campaigns and relationships. Responsibilities included: - Data visualization and complex UI interaction to assist marketer decision-making. - User and group management, including authorization and authentication - Responsible for modernization of frontend architecture including: - Migration from home-grown framework… Show more Full stack developer focusing on UI and supporting systems powering the MobileAppTracking product, a SaaS portal enabling advertisers to manage their marketing campaigns and relationships. Responsibilities included: - Data visualization and complex UI interaction to assist marketer decision-making. - User and group management, including authorization and authentication - Responsible for modernization of frontend architecture including: - Migration from home-grown framework to Angular - Modernization of build process - Addition of css preprocessor - Adoption of frontend unit testing - API and data requirements and design Technologies used: - JavaScript - jQuery, Angular, Grunt, Underscore - HTML, CSS, Sass - PHP, Python - Docker, EC2, SQS, SMS, ELK - MySQL, Redshift, proprietary columnar data stores
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FDG Web, Inc
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United States
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Marketing Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Development Director
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Feb 2004 - Sep 2011
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Multimedia Developer
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1999 - 2001
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Education
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1997 - 1998
The Art Institutes
Associate of Arts - AA, Computer Animation -
1990 - 1994
Northwest Nazarene College
Bachelor's degree, Speech Communication and Rhetoric
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