Resume

Kevin Church

Malvern, PA 19355
kevin@kevinchurch.com
(484) 321-6272
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Overview

Hands-on engineering leader with 20+ years of experience scaling B2B SaaS platforms from founding engineer to VP, including successful private equity acquisition. Deep expertise in SOC 2 compliance, AWS cloud migration, enterprise integrations, and building high-performing distributed teams (in-person, remote, offshore) through cross-functional collaboration. A servant leader focused on psychological safety and empowering teams while maintaining 99.999% reliability at scale.

Accomplishments

  • Pioneered and scaled the industry-launching secure document sharing and project management platform, serving 500+ enterprise customers over 20 years with top-tier performance and reliability.

  • Achieved SOC 2 compliance by developing policies, documentation, and processes, delivering the project on time with minimal disruption, strengthening security, and enabling new and expanded customer contracts.

  • Directed end-to-end technology due diligence for a private equity acquisition, analyzing all systems and operations to provide insights critical to closing the deal.

  • Partnered with internal and external teams to build iPaaS and native enterprise integrations, accelerating GTM and supporting acquisition of higher-value customers.

Tech Skills

Cloud/Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, ECS), Docker/Podman, VMWare/KVM, Linux

Languages/Frameworks: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, Node.js, Shell scripting

AI/ML Tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Custom GPTs

Data/Observability: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Security/Compliance: SOC 2, SIEM, Zero Trust, OAuth/SAML

Practices: CI/CD, Agile, DevOps, OKRs, TDD, PR Reviews, Vendor management

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer and Information Science University of Delaware, Newark, DE | 1995-2000

Experience

VP of Engineering

Workzone | Philadelphia, PA (remote) | December 2018 - April 2025

Operating in the B2B SaaS Project Management sector, Workzone is a bootstrapped to Private Equity-Owned organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Set technical vision and architecture for a reliable, scalable SaaS platform while maintaining hands-on involvement in all critical systems
  • Built and managed engineering team, hiring and mentoring talent, achieving an average tenure of 11 years
  • Managed offshore development team of 3-4 engineers for MuleSoft iPaaS integration initiatives
  • Evaluated and implemented AI-augmented development tools and workflows to enhance team productivity
  • Drove cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Success to align engineering roadmap with business objectives
  • Oversaw infrastructure, security, compliance, and technology spend of $500k
  • Managed stakeholder relationships across executives, board members, and PE investors, communicating technical strategy, risks, and progress

Accomplishments:

  • Achieved SOC 2 compliance on time and under budget by developing policies, documentation, and processes with minimal disruption, strengthening security and enabling new and expanded customer contracts
  • Established enterprise security infrastructure including SIEM for threat detection, ITSM for incident management, endpoint management, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and security awareness training programs
  • Led vendor selection and contract negotiations for security tools and services, reducing costs by 20% while improving coverage
  • Partnered with internal and external teams to build iPaaS and native enterprise integrations, accelerating GTM and supporting acquisition of higher-value customers
  • Developed custom GPT trained on SOC 2 policies, cutting security questionnaire completion time by 50-70% and eliminating inconsistencies in customer-facing security documentation
  • Reduced technical debt by 30% through strategic refactoring initiatives while maintaining feature velocity, enabling faster delivery of new capabilities
  • 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 with Jenkins to accelerate delivery
  • Architected containerization and migration of legacy systems to AWS
  • Led tech due diligence and transition to private equity ownership

Tech Stack: Vue, JavaScript, Java, Postgres, Linux, Docker/Podman, AWS

Director of Engineering

Workzone | East Norriton, PA (hybrid) | August 2014 - December 2018

Responsibilities:

  • Led engineering team of 3-4 while remaining deeply technical and hands-on with code and architecture
  • Balanced feature delivery with technical debt reduction, while maintaining system reliability
  • Implemented best practices for code quality, testing, and incident response
  • Collaborated with Product and Design to align on roadmap priorities
  • Monitored infrastructure, security, and operational metrics

Accomplishments:

  • Collaborated cross-functionally with Sales and Customer Success to deliver enterprise features including SSO/SAML authentication, driving 20% increase in deal velocity and enabling higher-tier pricing
  • Designed and built REST API that expanded enterprise integrations, increased product stickiness to drive retention, and enhanced customer efficiency, fueling revenue growth and market expansion
  • Initiated and executed an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration with 100M+ row tables, improving performance, reliability, and maintainability while eliminating database licensing and support costs
  • Implemented Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) for comprehensive observability, creating platform performance dashboards, extracting customer usage intelligence for product development and customer success initiatives, and enabling proactive incident detection through real-time alerting
  • Increased feature delivery speed by 30% by introducing Agile and OKRs

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, Oracle, Postgres, Linux, REST, Nagios, ElasticSearch

Engineering Manager

Workzone | East Norriton, PA (in-office) | August 2011 - August 2014

Responsibilities:

  • Expanded team by hiring operations engineer to handle growing infrastructure needs while maintaining hands-on technical leadership
  • Managed team of 2-3 engineers across development and operations
  • Continued backend development and database architecture responsibilities
  • Implemented secure remote work capabilities for the entire company
  • Managed office networking, wifi, and VPN infrastructure

Accomplishments:

  • Built multi-datacenter data replication system to ensure failover capabilities
  • Strengthened security posture through improved backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures
  • Enhanced platform project management capabilities while maintaining system performance
  • Coordinated with stakeholders across the organization to implement company-wide remote work infrastructure, achieving 100% adoption with zero business disruption
  • Established operational excellence practices that reduced incidents by 50%
  • Strengthened team skills and readiness through mentorship and technical knowledge sharing

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, Oracle, Linux

Principal Engineer

Workzone | East Norriton, PA (in-office) | August 2008 - August 2011

Responsibilities:

  • Led all system architecture and technical debt prioritization decisions while managing the tech team and continuing hands-on development
  • Designed and implemented infrastructure expansion including a second colocation facility
  • Maintained 24/7 on-call responsibilities while establishing redundant systems
  • Continued primary responsibility for backend systems and database design

Accomplishments:

  • Managed office relocation technical infrastructure, overseeing contractors installing Cat6 throughout the 200-year-old building, deploying Avaya phone system, establishing redundant internet connections (FiOS/Comcast), and building out server room and enterprise wifi
  • Drove platform expansion, doubling datacenter capacity with warm-standby systems, enhancing resiliency and reducing RTO/RPO
  • Expanded product’s project management capabilities to support enterprise customers
  • Maintained 99.99% uptime while managing infrastructure growth
  • Served as technical mentor to the growing engineering team

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, Oracle, Linux

Staff Engineer

Workzone | Conshohocken, PA (in-office) | August 2005 - August 2008

Responsibilities:

  • Coached and mentored growing tech team, conducting performance reviews and career development
  • Delegated frontend development tasks while owning backend and database architecture
  • Continued all infrastructure, security, and operational responsibilities
  • Maintained 24/7 on-call duties while building team capabilities
  • Designed and scaled infrastructure supporting platform growth

Accomplishments:

  • Built a customer analytics platform that became the primary tool for product roadmap decisions and enabled the customer success team to proactively identify at-risk accounts and expansion opportunities
  • Established patterns and processes that scaled with company growth

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, JSP, Oracle, Linux

Founding Engineer

Workzone | Conshohocken, PA (in-office) | August 2002 - August 2005

Responsibilities:

  • Solo technical founding engineer responsible for the company’s entire technology stack and operations on bootstrapped startup budget
  • Designed UI, wrote all code, optimized database design and performance
  • Racked servers, configured firewalls, established backup and recovery strategies
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for customers and IT assistance for all employees
  • Wrote security policies, conducted testing, and managed on-prem infrastructure
  • Hired and managed interns, sourced and recruited first full-time engineer in 2004

Accomplishments:

  • Built platform from zero to serve first 50 enterprise customers with 100% uptime commitment
  • Refactored legacy JSP platform to modern MVC architecture supporting multi-tenant SaaS operations
  • Established foundational security, backup, and operational practices
  • Successfully recruited and onboarded first technical hire, beginning team growth

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, JSP, Oracle, Linux

Senior Software Engineer

Verilaw Technologies | Wayne, PA (in-office) | October 2001 - July 2002

Enhanced developer experience through automated tooling, building custom ORM that generated Java classes and stored procedures from MS SQL schemas to accelerate development velocity by 20%. Resolved critical production deadlocks via connection pooling (40% performance gain) while mentoring 10+ senior developers on Java/OO practices and streamlining development workflows.

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, MS SQL Server

Software Engineer

InternetSeer | Thornton, PA (in-office) | November 2000 - September 2001

Engineered scalable web-crawling platform processing 1M URLs/hour per server, powering the company’s monitoring-as-a-service business model through JMS messaging, low-level database I/O optimization, and advanced caching strategies.

Tech Stack: Java, C++, Oracle, Linux

Java Developer

Odyssey Systems | Philadelphia, PA (in-office) | April 2000 - November 2000

Pioneered secure document sharing platform that evolved into Workzone, which grew to serve 500+ enterprise customers over 20 years.

Tech Stack: JavaScript, Java, JSP, MySQL, Oracle, Linux

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