Kevin Garcia
Engineering Manager at Amazon AWS
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarKevin Garcia is a UX leader with a decade of experience designing and shipping complex, large-scale interfaces for cloud and IoT platforms, currently managing UX for the OpenSearch Project at AWS in San Jose. He blends hands-on front-end development and visual design—having built design systems at Stanford and led major launches like OpenSearch 1.0 and Cold Storage—so he speaks fluently to designers and engineers alike. His work has improved product velocity and delivered measurable outcomes, including dramatic cost-savings for archival storage and new reporting capabilities. Kevin’s background ranges from enterprise IoT at Cisco to data-heavy SaaS and academic design systems, giving him unusually broad product empathy across consumer, research, and operator workflows. Known to “breathe design and sweat code,” he pairs creative craft with pragmatic delivery and a track record of scaling design teams and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (102)
opensearch10
brunch10
svg10
neat10
sass-framework10
opensearch-dashboards10
analytics10
java10
omega10
grid-layout10
tailwindcss10
bourbon10
visualization10
css10
sass10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kgcreative/brunch-with-cocktails
Aug 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
kgcreative/neat-omega
Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
An omega mixin family for Neat 2.x
Contributions:17 releases, 64 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
mixinomeganeat2-xbourbon
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