I'm Kevin (he/him). I'm from London 🇬🇧 but now live mostly in Berlin 🇩🇪 and sometimes in Leiden 🇳🇱. I only fluently speak English.

By day I am Director of Developer Experience at Directus. By night I run a hackathon consultancy focused on research & development, and help devtools companies with their developer experience through community, education, and tooling work which I've been doing since 2014.

• Deepgram, as a Senior Developer Advocate heading developer education initiatives to help people build with Voice AI.
• Orbit, as a Developer Advocate to help community builders better understand their groups.
• Vonage, as a Developer Advocate to help developers build with communication APIs.
• You Got This, as Director to help people build better core skills to navigate work and personal lives.
• Rewired State, as Developer Advocate Engineer to help organizations do more with their data.
• Young Rewired State, as Community Lead to connect and build communities of technical young people across the world.
• Hacksmiths, as President to run student events at the intersection of technology, art, and politics.

I'm also a JavaScript developer, avid Disney fan, board gamer, and collector of vinyl.

• learning to play 🎹 keyboard,
• learning to speak 🗣️ German,
• spending time 🖌️ figure drawing,
• 🧑‍🍳 cooking for my friends and I.

is based on Metroid Prime and sometimes shortened to _phzn on other platforms.