Professional Experience

I’m Kevin Conway, a software developer in the staff/principal/architect range. You can find my history and experience below, on LinkedIn, or in this PDF. If you’re interested in talking about professional opportunities then email me at jobs@conway0.com or send me a message on LinkedIn.

I work remotely, located in Texas.

I specialize in software design and architecture, operational excellence, site reliability, data migrations, and legacy system decomposition.

In March 2025, I converted to a full time employee at Vanta.

I worked with the team that manages Vanta’s data ingestion pipeline to achieve a set of product scaling goals. This included:

I work with companies of all sizes, from ground floor startups to larger enterprises, as a freelance principal developer or consultant. Each engagement is unique but the common problems I solve are:

I was primarily contracted to help facilitate the decomposition of a core, legacy system into new, independent services. I worked closely with technical leads and a small IC team to design and build a bidirectional and cross-DB engine data migration framework that was used to synchronize and progressively roll out or back new services. The migration system leveraged change-data-capture and Kafka to both bootstrap new systems with data and provide guaranteed synchronization between new and legacy systems. The bidirectional feature of the migration allowed for progressive replacement of features even while the legacy system remained under use.

I worked with Sailpoint on a part time basis, between 5 and 15 hours a week. My role was primarily to partner with other technical leads to workshop, debate, and document system design and implementation plans. As part of this I helped define system performance expectations and integrated monitoring to measure performance against those expectations. I occasionally provided insight and investigative deep dives into issues related to Kafka, event processing, and system performance both as part of my primary project and as needed for other projects.

InVision hired me to start a new team focused on internal improvements to development tooling, developer platform services, and overall system architecture of the product. The team was small and included only senior level and above developers. While I occasionally contributed code, the bulk of the IC work was accomplished the team.

I worked on multiple products and teams during my time at Atlassian. I started as a Python subject matter expert and transitioned to technical leadership. Note that principal was my title at exit. I was promoted during my time developing the Stride product.

I joined a small team within the company that was introducing Python as a development language and cloud infrastructure as a replacement for on-premise servers. This role primarily included improving the development and operations of Python systems with a secondary focus on evaluating cloud infrastructure offerings.

I worked with a team of software developers and operations engineers to commercialize an open source database as a service platform. This role included a combination of developing new product offerings, participating in a large open source community, and improving operations.

I worked in a full stack development and business intelligence reporting role with a team of other business intelligence analysts. Our primary focus was on generating interactive reports on any and all aspects of the business. I was given the opportunity to build a greenfield, proof-of-concept, interactive reporting tool that was later replaced with a commercial solution.