Kevin Church
Software Engineering Leader
B2B SaaS Project Management Founding Engineer
About Me
Hi! I’m Kevin Church, a hands-on software engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling teams and platforms. As a founding engineer and player-coach, I’ve helped grow B2B SaaS companies from bootstrapped startups to private equity acquisitions. Based in Malvern, PA, I’m passionate about creating scalable solutions and mentoring the next generation of engineers.
Quick Facts
Current Role
Software Engineering Leader
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science
University of Delaware
Experience
20+ years of software engineering leadership
Interests
Coding & Technology, Drums, Guitar, Woodworking,
Car Projects, Welding, Making Things
Skills
Combining 20+ years of software engineering leadership with modern technology development and expanding into AI/ML capabilities.
Software Development
Building scalable SaaS platforms with Java and modern frameworks, focusing on enterprise applications and automation.
Artificial Intelligence
Hands-on exploration of local AI infrastructure and automation workflows, including self-hosted LLM deployment (Ollama), custom AI interfaces (Open WebUI), and workflow automation (n8n) to enhance development productivity while maintaining data privacy and control.
Continuous Improvement
Obsessed with efficiency and optimization, leveraging modern tools and methodologies to measure, analyze, and systematically improve development processes and team performance.
Engineering Expertise
Full-stack infrastructure experience from bare metal server deployment to cloud architecture. Deep expertise in performance tuning, security hardening, and architectural decisions. I balance bleeding-edge technologies with battle-tested solutions, choosing the right approach based on risk tolerance and business requirements.
Team Leadership
Servant leader focused on empowering cross-functional engineering teams. I believe it’s essential for leaders to give credit and take responsibility, fostering trust and accountability.
Business & Strategy
Making pragmatic decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term vision. Strategic planning for sustainable growth, understanding total cost of ownership from on-premises to cloud migrations. Experienced in SOC 2 compliance and GDPR governance as designated privacy officer.
Mentorship & Growth
Passionate about helping team members grow professionally and advance their careers. The average tenure on my teams is 11 years, reflecting my commitment to creating environments where engineers thrive, learn, and build long-term success.
Community & Learning
Active in community involvement and continuous professional development, with a passion for learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others.
Experience
20+ years of software engineering leadership, building scalable systems and leading technical teams to solve complex engineering and automation challenges.
Workzone
VP of Engineering
Bootstrapped to Private Equity-Owned B2B SaaS Project Management platform employing 16 people
Key Achievements
- Built and managed engineering team, hiring and mentoring talent, achieving an average tenure of 11 years
- Established engineering best practices and development processes
- Owned product delivery roadmap and execution with Product/Design
- Oversaw infrastructure, security, compliance, and technology spend of $500k
- Achieved SOC 2 compliance by developing policies, documentation, and processes
- Partnered with internal and external teams to build iPaaS and native enterprise integrations, accelerating GTM and supporting acquisition of higher-value customers
- Maintained industry-leading reliability of 99.999% and sub-100ms application response times
- Prepared managers for senior roles through structured leadership development programs
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to accelerate delivery
- Architected containerization and migration of legacy systems to AWS
- Led tech due diligence and transition to private equity ownership
Workzone
Director of Engineering
B2B SaaS Project Management platform
Key Achievements
- Led day-to-day engineering team operations and execution
- Initiated and executed an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration with 100M+ row tables, improving performance, reliability, and maintainability while eliminating database licensing and support costs
- Built REST API that expanded enterprise integrations, increased product stickiness to drive retention, and enhanced customer efficiency, fueling revenue growth and market expansion
- Developed single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure powering the enterprise subscription tier, improving customer experience while driving higher-tier pricing and revenue growth
- Strengthened team skills and readiness through mentorship and technical knowledge sharing
- Increased feature delivery speed by 60% by introducing Agile and OKRs
- Implemented best practices for code quality, testing, and incident response
Workzone
Founding Engineer
Early-stage SaaS platform development and scaling
Key Achievements
- Designed and scaled infrastructure supporting platform growth
- Supported 200% growth in platform reliability with monitoring and automation
- Refactored legacy JSP platform to modern MVC architecture
- Established coding standards and architectural principles
- Served as technical mentor to the growing engineering team
Verilaw Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
Legal technology solutions for government systems
Key Achievements
- Coached team of 10+ engineers in Java development practices
- Engineered code generation tools that reduced development time by 70%
- Automated CRUD operations for government electronic filing systems
- Created automations for PDF manipulation
InternetSeer
Software Engineer
Web crawling and monitoring platform
Key Achievements
- Designed scalable web crawling platform architecture
- Built platform processing one million URLs per hour
- Implemented advanced query optimization and caching strategies
- Optimized database performance on commodity hardware
Odyssey Systems
Java Developer
Custom software development for enterprise clients
Key Achievements
- Pioneered secure document sharing platform that evolved into Workzone
- Created the platform that grew to serve 500+ enterprise customers over 20 years
- Built and maintained server-side business logic, data processing, and application workflows
- Worked with clients, designers, and product managers to convert business requirements into technical implementations
Technical Skills
Core technical expertise built over 20+ years of hands-on software engineering leadership in B2B SaaS environments.
Programming Languages
Databases
Web & UI
Cloud & Infrastructure
Development Tools
Project Management
Let's Connect
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Contact Information
Let's connect! I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities.