Kevin Cantwell
Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Cantwell is a senior engineering leader with 15 years of experience delivering large-scale data platforms and reliable backend systems. As Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy, he leads engineering teams and has progressed from hands-on software engineering to strategic leadership across data pipelines and productization at NS1. His background spans backend architecture, AWS infrastructure, and microservices, with a focus on making large-scale streaming data usable across products. A Rutgers graduate in Mathematics and Computer Science, he combines rigorous problem solving with operational excellence and a disciplined leadership style shaped by four years of U.S. Army service. Based in New York, he has shipped under pressure across startups and large tech environments, turning complex data challenges into practical, scalable solutions. Beyond delivery, he mentors teams to balance speed with reliability and drives data-driven product outcomes across the organization.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Major: Mathematics; Minor: Computer Science, BA, Major: Mathematics; Minor: Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (183)
telegraf10
grafana10
xpath10
influxdb10
monitoring10
mqtt10
redigo10
yaml10
golang10
opcua10
json10
sqlite10
kafka10
dot10
toml10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kevin-cantwell/resp
Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
rediscommand-line-utilityserializationstreamresp
kevin-cantwell/repoman
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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