# Kev 🌹🇪🇺 (@codingpa.ws)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/codingpa.ws
Headline: real dog with coding paws
Location: Germany

## About

i enjoy designing and building (open-source) software products that are meaning- and useful to people — all with a passion for developer experience, no-bullshit business practices, and good food 🩷

## Career

- **Frontend Engineer, Developer Experience at GitLab** (Apr 2024 - Present)
  Remote
- **Open Source Contributor at GitLab** (May 2020 - Apr 2024)
  Remote
- **Lead Developer & Co-Founder at SiegeGG** (Nov 2017 - Aug 2023)
  Remote
- **Software Developer at ADvendio** (Oct 2019 - Nov 2021)
  Hybrid

## Skills

### Technical
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Software Engineering
- TypeScript
### Creative
- UI Design
- UX Design
### Community
- Content Moderation
- Dog Training

## Projects

- **Furrylist** — https://furryli.st (Jul 2023 - Present)
  Furrylist is an open source provider of social media feeds for the furry subculture on Bluesky. Furrylist has 65,000 members and thousands of daily active users.
- **Pwurple** — https://pwurple.app (Mar 2023 - Present)
  live-streaming tooling & analytics

## Publications

- Visualizing GitLab pipelines — codingpa.ws (May 2026) https://codingpa.ws/post/pipeline-visualizer
- Saving three full-time jobs with stability — codingpa.ws (Dec 2025) https://codingpa.ws/post/saving-three-jobs-with-stability
- Bringing my blog to the terminal — codingpa.ws (Sep 2025) https://codingpa.ws/post/blog-on-the-terminal
- How we saved 40,000 CI/CD hours — codingpa.ws (Jun 2025) https://codingpa.ws/post/saving-40000-compute-hours
- Faster updates with fancy spinners — codingpa.ws (Aug 2024) https://codingpa.ws/post/faster-updates-with-fancy-spinners
- Migrating SiegeGG to Vue — codingpa.ws (Sep 2022) https://codingpa.ws/post/migrating-siegegg-to-vue
- Weird PHP: Why are some strings callable? — codingpa.ws (Aug 2022) https://codingpa.ws/post/weird-php-why-are-some-strings-callable
- Evolution of the SiegeGG Game Center — codingpa.ws (May 2022) https://codingpa.ws/post/the-evolution-of-the-game-center
- Slack off more at work — codingpa.ws (Apr 2022) https://codingpa.ws/bits/slack-off-more
- Don't use the double-tilde in JavaScript — codingpa.ws (Jun 2021) https://codingpa.ws/post/dont-use-the-double-tilde-in-js

## Credentials

- TeamOps Certified (Feb 2024)

## Awards

- Release MVP — GitLab (Dec 2021)
  “Kev has worked over the 14.6 milestones to find and fix over a dozen User Experience issues around the platform. While many contributions were in the Verify stage of the platform, they also added contributions to the Geo, Release, and Create stages.
  
  They have been contributing to the GitLab platform for quite some time with over 240 merged MRs since the 13.1 release. Thank you Kev! 🙌”

## Involvement

### Volunteering
- Ubisoft (May 2018 - May 2021)
  Software Engineer (Trust & Safety)
  Volunteer position as chat moderator and software engineer of the R6Mod Moderation System.
  
  · processed millions of chat messages (during streams with 100k+ viewers!)
  · tracked moderation schedules in a team of 50+ moderators
  · moderation action analytics in React

## Languages

- German (native)
- English (full professional)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/KevSlashNull
- Website: https://codingpa.ws
- GitLab: https://gitlab.com/KevSlashNull