Kendrick Mitchell

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VP of Engineering at Ember Robotics | ex-Salesforce

Ember Robotics
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
16+ years experience
University of Florida
English, Spanish
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Overview

20 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Ember Robotics, where I lead the developer platform team. Moved 80% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Built the experimentation framework 21 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Salesforce and Disney. Most at home with CI/CD and service mesh. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

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Skills
Goservice meshBackstageBazelobservabilityCI/CDKubernetes
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5 data engineer roles open on the developer platform team in San Jose

Role
Data engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$155k-$199k
Team
Developer platform, 18 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $186k-$295k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Jose, CAci/cdservice meshbackstage
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Nov 2022 - Present
    Ember Robotics · 3 yr 11 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 32 a week to 4.
    • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
    Salesforce · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 26 a week to 2.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 569ms to 95ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    May 2017 - Sep 2020
    Disney · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Led the migration of 62 services to CI/CD.
    • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 32 engineers.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2013 - Feb 2017
    Dropbox · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 32% in two quarters.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Mar 2011 - Apr 2013
    Target · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 3.
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 83 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. University of Florida
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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