Kevin Goldsmith is the Chief Technology Officer at Avvo in Seattle, overseeing all Development, Data, Dev Ops and IT teams. Previously he was the Vice President of Engineering, Consumer at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden, leading the development of the product and streaming services. Kevin was a Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems for nine years, where he led the Adobe Revel product group and the Adobe Image Foundation group. He spent eight years at Microsoft in the Windows and Research teams.
Kevin has been working in Agile methodologies since 1999 when Kent Beck's "Extreme Programming Explained" was first released and his team at BootlegTV decided to try it out.