I'm Kevin (he/him). I'm from London 🇬🇧 but now live mostly in Berlin 🇩🇪 and sometimes in Leiden 🇳🇱. I only fluently speak English.

I also 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.

• 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,
• spending time 🖌️ figure drawing,
• 🧑‍🍳 cooking for my friends and I.

is based on Metroid Prime and sometimes shortened to _phzn on other platforms.

Kevin is a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub where he helps developers get the most from the GitHub platform. His previous work includes 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.