Kevin Pierce
Founder of PerkUp
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CTO
2022 - Current
PerkUp drives employee engagement by allowing companies to send incredible gifts to employees.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Defy.vc.
Co-founder & CTO
2020 - 2022
Principal Software Engineer
2020 - 2020
Helping to add Event Driven approaches to our architecture.
Engineering Manager
2019 - 2020
Begun formal Engineering Management role. Coordinated and held weekly 1:1s with direct reports. Quarterly performance management cycle. Grow the Engineering team in Vancouver. Assisted in transferring 2 engineers internally from another global office. Hosted dozens of visitors from other global offices. Maintained Picatic platform and completed shutdown of services and accounts.
Senior Software Engineer II
2018 - 2019
Managed the Live Migration of active events for Picatic customer's to Eventbrite. The active sales where moved and continued on the new target platform. Modernized the public facing documentation for Eventbrite's developer platform. Managed six IC's throughout this time.
Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Raised $557,250,000.00 from Francisco Partners.
Lead Engineer
2015 - 2018
Helping build the Picatic platform. Was a Partner and drove the technology side of our acquisition by Eventbrite. New Technologies: - Go - Kubernetes (on AWS/GCP) - Docker - GCP - Deep integration with Stackdriver - Collaborated directly with Product and Marketing for establishing and growing our vision. - Directed the technology decisions for the Picatic Checkout/API - Moved platform through a number of cloud infrastructure changes. - Consul and AWS EC2 through to Kubernetes and eventually K8S on Google - Supported Pen Tests and SR&ED activities - Comprehensive caching strategies throughout the entire architecture topology - Collaborated on Slack integrations - Leveraged BigQuery as a data warehouse - Participated in Design Sprints - Presented a few times to the Google Developer communities in Vancouver - Technologies choices driven by future costs fo scaling
Development Manager
2011 - 2015
Building a health and wellness platform. Sync health biometric data. Fitness Challenges. Technologies - PostgreSql, MySql - Skytools/PGQ - PHP, ZendFramework, Propel - OAuth, REST/Api - iPhone/WindowsDesktop - Joyent/SmartOS - Chef/SaltStack - HAProxy - Varnish Integrated SSO with several American Universities. Powered Amway's online health and wellness portal. Worked with The Biggest Loser for audience participation in health and wellness. Created a containerized development pipeline based on SmartOS for a seamless Docker like experience.
Software Developer
2011 - 2011
iOS and web application development.
Software Architect
2008 - 2010
- Building social mashup engine MashedIn (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) on AppEngine using asynctools. - Developed AppEngine framework asynctools to leverage its highly parallel asynchronous API. - Building global enterprise solutions for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers.
Release Manager
2005 - 2008
Supporting and maintaining the system powering Caterpillar's Global Dealer Network, CatUsed.com
Systems Administrator
2004 - 2005
Systems Analyst
2003 - 2005