Hi, I am Kevin Kinnett

Kevin Kinnett

Senior Software Engineer at Milliman, Inc.

Over ten years of integration and consulting experience. Proven results in a diversity of technologies and architectures, working in numerous industries. Leading development for multiple business critical applications using Microsoft Azure PaaS and Kubernetes Solutions.

Recent Posts

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Fifth Generation Programming Languages

Fifth Generation Programming Languages History in Context As a software developer with close to two decades under my belt, I have seen the evolution of software engineering paradigms, and a short look at history can give us some prospective on the broader shift in computer languages from the early days of machine code and assembly to the high-level languages of today. As a child of the early days of personal computing, I was introduced to the world of programming through languages like Microsoft Quick Basic.

February 7, 2023 Read
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UTF-8 String Literals C# 11

UTF-8 string literals Today I want to talk about the shiny new feature of C# 11, the UTF-8 string literals. If you’re a programmer, you know that string handling is a big part of what we do, and in .NET, we’ve traditionally used string as the default type for string literals. But that’s about to change! With C# 11, we now have the option to use UTF-8 string literals instead.

February 6, 2023 Read
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Say Hello to the Power of Generic Attributes in C# 11

Generic Attributes C# 11, the latest version of Microsoft’s programming language, has arrived, bringing with it a host of new features and improvements. And among these new features, there’s one that I think deserves special attention: Generic Attributes. Traditional Attributes If you’re not familiar with attributes in C#, they’re basically metadata that you can attach to your code to provide additional information to the compiler. For example, you might use the [Obsolete] attribute to indicate that a particular method or class should no longer be used.

February 4, 2023 Read

Skills

C# dotnet
C# dotnet

C# is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language encompassing static typing, strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented, and component-oriented programming disciplines.
Visual Studio
Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps.
Azure
Azure

Microsoft Azure, commonly referred to as Azure, is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management.
Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s proprietary globally-distributed, multi-model database service for managing data at planet-scale launched in May 2017. It is schema-agnostic, horizontally scalable and generally classified as a NoSQL database.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions

Azure functions are used in serverless computing architectures where subscribers can execute code as an event driven Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) without managing the underlying server resources.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps Server is a Microsoft product that provides version control, reporting, requirements management, project management, automated builds, testing and release management capabilities. It covers the entire application lifecycle, and enables DevOps capabilities.
Software Design Patterns
Software Design Patterns

In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. It is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into source or machine code.
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Microsoft BizTalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Server is an Inter-Organizational Middleware System that enables companies to automate business processes, through the use of adapters which are tailored to communicate with different software systems used in an enterprise.

Experiences

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Senior Software Engineer
Milliman.

October 2022 - Present, Atlanta, GA

Milliman provides actuarial and business consulting expertise to major health, life, and P&C insurance organizations. We also provide extensive expertise to employee benefits plans and develop actuarial software solutions.

Responsibilities:
  • Developing business critical applications using Microsoft Azure PaaS and Kubernetes.
Lead Software Engineer
Assurant, Inc.

July 2019 - October 2022, Atlanta, GA

Assurant, Inc. is a global provider of risk management products and services with headquarters in New York City. Its businesses provide a diverse set of specialty, niche-market insurance products in the property, casualty, extended device protection, and preneed insurance sectors.

Responsibilities:
  • Leading development for multiple business critical applications using Microsoft Azure PaaS and Service Fabric solutions.
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Senior Integration Consultant
Ad Victoriam Solutions

August 2018 - June 2019, Alpharetta, GA

Ad Victoriam is a Salesforce® and MuleSoft® Partner who provides multi-cloud consulting services, from strategy to implementation.

Responsibilities:
  • Designed and implemented solutions to integrate multiple systems with salesforce.
Innovative Architects

January 2010 - July 2018, Alpharetta, GA

Microsoft Gold Partner providing flexible, customized technology solutions for any size enterprise.

Technical Account Manager

March 2013 - July 2018

  • Utilized a diverse set of technologies including several high profile, long term BizTalk integration projects, mission critical custom SharePoint portals as well a many custom .NET and ASP.NET projects.
Senior Consultant, Senior Software Engineer

January 2010 - March 2013

  • Utilized a diverse set of technologies including several high profile, long term BizTalk integration projects, mission critical custom SharePoint portals as well a many custom .NET and ASP.NET projects.
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Software Engineer
A.D.A.M.

May 2009 - January 2010, Atlanta, GA

Adam specializes in software for employers, benefits brokers and healthcare organizations which provide customizable health solutions to help hospitals, managed care organizations, and consumer web sites become an integral part of the online consumer healthcare experience.

Responsibilities:
  • Was responsible for several mission critical applications, including being on the two person team that was charged with the final stages of the rewrite and deployment of the company’s flagship product.
  • Was on the team responsible for standardizing the messaging/EDI platforms and applications across the organization.
Network Engineer
SDN Global

February 2009 - May 2009, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:
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Software Engineer
Nexidia

January 2007 - October 2008, Atlanta, GA

Nexidia has applied years of research and development to deliver a comprehensive range of solutions for audio and video search. Nexidia works with some of the world’s largest contact centers, rich media companies, government agencies, and legal firms to help them realize the amazing possibilities now discoverable in audio and video content.

Responsibilities:
  • Was part of the development of many custom .NET applications including standalone tools, applications, and frameworks used mainly to perform system testing, automated functional testing, load testing, and automated UI testing.
  • Developed applications that automated deployment of configurable complex data sets into installed products.
Student Technology Advisor
Presentation Technology Department at Kennesaw State University

September 2003 - December 2006, Kennesaw, GA

Student Technology Advisors trained and advised faculty members, students, and staff on the use of Photoshop, Illustrator, Web Development (Dreamweaver, Flash), InDesign, Video Editing - iMovie and Final Cut Pro and the OS X operating system.

Responsibilities:
  • Developed a software application to keep track of the audio/visual equipment the department circulates. This was written in Java using a MySQL database back end hosted on a OS X server. This project was completed using Eclipse IDE.
  • Helped to install and maintained the audio/projection systems around campus.
  • Worked with faculty members to develop instructional technology projects for classroom use
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Full Time Student of Computer Science
Kennesaw State University

August 2002 - December 2006, Kennesaw, GA

Responsibilities:
  • Graduated with a Bachelor’s of Computer Science Magna Cum Laude.
  • Served as the District Technology Chair for KSU’s college Kiwanis chapter.
  • Served as the vice president then president of KSU’s Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) chapter.
  • Was invited into the Presidential Fellow program.