Kevin Goldsmith

DistroKid is the leading platform for independent musicians to distribute their music. I oversee the technical vision, strategy, and execution of the company, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of our services and products. I am responsible for the engineering, data analytics, data science, IT, and infrastructure teams for the company.

I work with startup and mid-size company leaders to grow their teams, their processes, and their business. Services include short and long-term mentoring of leadership and employees, help with creating organizational structures, and improving company processes and culture. Engagements have lasted from days to years with customers in the US, UK, Australia, and Europe.

Unit Circle Media includes software products, a record label, several web properties, and a paper and web magazine (published from 1992-1995). I am responsible for all business activities related to this part-time enterprise. While choosing not to grow this business beyond its current size, it has been (and remains) profitable.

Oversaw and supported the company and the executive team.

During my tenure at Anaconda: the company had seven consecutive quarters of record revenue growth; we raised a substantial funding round; we launched the company's first SAAS platform and products; I brought the Pyston and Beeware open-source projects under the company's umbrella; I helped to negotiate new partnerships with Snowflake, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle; and I lead the company's first acquisition. To support these efforts, I grew the engineering organization from 46 to 145, substantially expanding the footprint outside the USA and adding new technical disciplines to the company.

Responsible for the 160-plus person Technology Organization, including Engineering, Research, Security, Business Intelligence, IT, and Product Support. The team was in London, Lisbon, Albuquerque, and remote. During my time at Onfido, I drove the company's first acquisition, we achieved our first SOC2 certification and recertified on ISO 27001. We completed a $100M raise with a process of extensive technical due diligence. Our revenue grew by over 130% during this time. I grew the technology organization by over 50% during my tenure while significantly improving the percentage of underrepresented groups in the organization. We signed our first significant global enterprise customers and signed partnerships with the worlds-largest IAM providers. We launched new production environments in the US and Canada to support data-locality for our customers. While we continued to improve our core product offering, I helped to shepherd several innovation projects, including partnering with the UK ICO's sandbox project on next-generation identity and privacy solutions. Onfido won multiple awards for our algorithm bias mitigation and accesibility work during my tenure.

Support and advise executive team on software development, scalability, hiring, and technical decisions.

Moved to an advisor role after leaving the company as a full-time employee. Worked to support the great team as they continued to build their products and business.

Hired initial development team in US and remote. Responsible for initial microservice software architecture using Kubernetes and Istio. Released iniital B2B and B2C application MVPs to the market.

Supported and advised the executive team on software development, scalability, hiring, and technical decisions.

Assisted Godel and their clients to build high-performing teams with a strong culture as they went through a period of rapid expansion of customers and employees.