Kevin Stewart

SVP Engineering, Splice

SVP Engineering at Splice

Greater Seattle Area

My focus is on building cross-functional and inclusive product teams for startups and enterprises. I have experience building and leading fully distributed teams that have successfully delivered consumer and enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS) applications throughout my career. My goal is to enable people to do their best work while delivering successful results for the organization.

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Career: 14

SVP Engineering

Splice

Mar 2023 - Present

Restructured engineering organization in order to reduce friction and significantly increase shipping velocity. Recruited strong technical leadership for the new teams to help grow our engineering talent. Led product development for the flagship Splice Sounds portfolio: * splice.com * Splice Desktop * Splice Mobile * Splice x Fender Studio Pro integration * Splice x Avid Pro Tools integration * Splice x Ableton Live integration * Splice Sounds plugin * Splice MCP Server Led technical due diligence and engineering team integration for the Spitfire Audio acquisition which accelerated the creation and launch of the Splice INSTRUMENT product. Led technical due diligence and engineering team integration for the Kits.ai acquisition to accelerate the creation of Splice’s next generation music creation product.

VP Engineering

Harvest

Apr 2020 - Feb 2023

I led Product and Platform Engineering and focused on defining our engineering culture. This involved, but was not limited to, increasing our overall development velocity, hiring engineers and engineering managers across all functions and introducing value-added technologies into our stack such as GraphQL and React Native. We implemented processes that have helped reduce overall technical debt as well as lowered the support burden by making improvements to the core product.

VP Engineering, Platform

Fastly

Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

As VP of Platform Engineering, I led Data Engineering, Developer Productivity and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

VP Engineering

Heptio

Feb 2017 - May 2018

My primary responsibilities were to grow the engineering organization, establish our software development practices, ship quality products and maintain a healthy diverse and inclusive culture. I grew the team from six to approximately 30 people, including systems engineers, site reliability engineers, frontend engineers, product designers, technical writers, engineering managers and directors. Lead the teams building several open source projects that filled critical gaps in Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem: Contour, Sonobuoy and Velero. Additionally, I drove the creation of Heptio Labs, an incubator for open source projects.

VP Engineering

NodeSource

Apr 2015 - Feb 2017

As VP Engineering, I was responsible for Product Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering and Open Source.

Director of Engineering

Adobe

Jul 2014 - Mar 2015

I led engineering for Creative Cloud Assets. My team designed and built the Web application, including a content-aware plugin model and implemented the Web experience and collaboration features for Creative Cloud Libraries.

Sr. Engineering Manager

Adobe

Nov 2010 - Jun 2014

My team designed and built the Adobe Creative Cloud Web application (https://assets.adobe.com) and I provided the initial design and architecture for our HTTP API.

Engineering Manager

Adobe

Nov 2004 - Oct 2010

Managed a distributed software development team that built application management technologies for the Creative Suite and Acrobat.

Director of Engineering

Alot.com

Jul 2002 - Jul 2004

Managed software development team focused on building connected desktop consumer software. Primary architect for the core client runtime and Javascript-based framework and designed a download manager application to more reliably download and install client applications.

Director of Engineering

Passlogix

Mar 2001 - Mar 2002

Co-developer of the initial prototype of the v-GO product, primarily the credential storage management and credential insertion components. Led engineering teams for v-GO Exchange and v-GO Single Sign On (SSO).

Director of Systems Development

Red Sky Interactive

Feb 2000 - Feb 2001

Recruited the entire Systems Development staff for the New York office (Software Engineering, Operations, Information Architecture, Web Development and Quality Assurance) and managed its growth to the second largest technology team in the company in less than one year.

Technical Director

Brand Dialogue

Oct 1998 - Jan 2000

Led a small team of backend Web developers building Web applications for clients. Grew and mentored engineers while developing a multiple platform technology strategy for the business.