I am an experienced, hands-on, technical leader of high profile, high-performing product, research, and shared technology engineering organizations. Pioneered the use of new technologies and development methodologies within organizations, and evangelized them successfully to senior management and other engineering teams. Routinely receive excellent reviews for leadership and customer focus. Am often invited to speak about building strong engineering teams at conferences internationally. Technical areas of expertise include: service scalability, user experience, consumer product development, GPGPU, multi-core, distributed computing, desktop, mobile, and connected architectures, image, audio and video processing, domain-specific languages and graphics. Have extensive experience building products using Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and Extreme Programming methodologies. resume is available at http://www.kevingoldsmith.com/resume.html Specialties (professional experience): Agile and Lean engineering management, software and system architecture, UI and multimedia (image/photography, 3D, video, audio) software development, mobile application development, web application development, desktop application development, hybrid application architectures, connected application architectures, service oriented architecture, distributed computing, embedded systems, mobile application development, grid computing, hybrid applications, connected applications, HPC, GPGPU, multi-threaded development, heterogeneous computing, Agile software development, Backend systems

Vice President Engineering, Consumer @ Leading the one hundred and thirty person consumer engineering organization in Sweden, three tribes consisting of sixteen teams in Stockholm and Göteborg, Sweden and New York City, USA; including engineering, test and agile coaches. The Consumer Alliance is responsible for all of the user visible features in the Spotify product, and for the media path from ingestion to storage, streaming and playback. Each of the teams is responsible for their full stack (from services to client UI) for Spotify's mobile, desktop and web platforms. Responsible for both large step-change product innovation efforts and continuing high-velocity incremental innovation, helping Spotify grow several hundred percent in active and paying users. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Owner @ Unit Circle Media includes 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 I have chosen not to grow this business beyond its current size, it has been (and remains) profitable. From January 1991 to Present (25 years) Greater Seattle AreaDirector of Engineering @ From April 2004 to May 2013 (9 years 2 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Engineering Manager @ From June 2006 to February 2011 (4 years 9 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Computer Scientist @ From April 2004 to June 2006 (2 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Design Engineer @ From December 2002 to April 2004 (1 year 5 months) Greater Seattle AreaComputer Scientist @ From May 2002 to December 2002 (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaDirector of Engineering @ From March 2001 to May 2002 (1 year 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaDevelopment Lead @ From August 2000 to March 2001 (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaDevelopment Lead @ From August 2000 to March 2001 (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Design Engineer @ From September 1994 to July 2000 (5 years 11 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Design Engineer @ From September 1994 to August 1999 (5 years) Greater Seattle AreaResearch and Development Engineer @ From April 1994 to September 1994 (6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMember of Technical Staff @ From May 1992 to April 1994 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaProgrammer @ From May 1991 to May 1992 (1 year 1 month) Greater Pittsburgh Area

BS, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics @ Carnegie Mellon University From 1988 to 1992 Kevin Goldsmith is skilled in: High Performance Computing, Multithreading, Mobile Applications, GPGPU, Software Engineering, Software Development, Software Design, 3D, Digital Media, Digital Asset Management, Web Services, Mac OS X, Windows, C++, OpenGL