Hi! I'm Kevin Lewis (he/him)

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A Bit About Me

💼 I'm a Developer Advocate at Vonage, where I support developers discover, understand and build using our APIs. My focus is supporting developers in London (and, more broadly, EMEA).

• I write technical blog posts.
• I used to host a fortnightly coding stream aimed at beginners called No Experience Required, but now have a show called Build a Thing where we build a project together over several weeks - you can watch it on the VonageDevs Twitch.
• I work on our champions program - Vonage Voyagers.
• I support community event organizers take their events online.
• I also run some internal programmes such as our hackathon series OneHack and the educational activity that surrounds it.

💖 I'm an experienced event organizer

• I'm lead organizer and coordinator for You Got This - a network of community-run conferences on non-technical 'core' skills.
• I'm an organizer of London Node User Group, London CSS and BarCamp London.

👨‍💻 I primarily write JavaScript, with a further interest in Serverless, Vue.js (with Nuxt.js) and Airtable.

📧 I write a newsletter called event.Handler() which is all about running awesome developer events. We're also turning it into a podcast!

🎲 I love boardgames! My collection is here.

Where I have worked

• Developer Advocate, Vonage (2020 - present)
• Director, Underland Events (2018 - 2020)
• Director, Underland Development (2018 - 2020)
• Education Program Support (Contractor), GitHub (2018 - 2019)
• Event Coach, Europe (Contractor), Major League Hacking (2016 - 2018)
• Software Developer, FutureGov (2017)
• Developer Community Manager, Digiotology (2015 - 2016)
• Developer Relations & Technical Project Lead, Rewired State (2014 - 2015)

You may otherwise know me from

• Running a series of sex-tech hackathons
• Running youth tech hackathons
• Being involved in London's civic tech community