Kevin Mooney

Director of Engineering

Bandcamp, Remote | 2015 -- 2026

Bandcamp is a leading independent music marketplace, and a subsidiary of Songtradr, Inc.

Director of Engineering – Features @ Bandcamp Remote | Feb 2024 -- Jul 2026

Serve as a member of Bandcamp’s senior leadership team, directing short- and long-term technical strategies in alignment with product, support, editorial and artist outreach goals.
Lead the team that delivers every aspect of Bandcamp, except checkout. This includes all fan and seller experiences across web, iOS and Android.
Manage 12 engineers, including multiple staff-level ICs, across three teams.
Collaborate with product and design groups to define future products, features and initiatives.
Create software specifications and guide software architecture and design.
Drive the creation and adoption of a product development lifecycle process to efficiently coordinate between engineering, product and design.

Sr. Engineering Manager @ Bandcamp Remote | Oct 2018 -- Feb 2024

Led a cohort of 6 engineers while working as an IC on Bandcamp’s payments and feature teams.
Drove projects to address compliance and legal requirements, including changes to support the EU Digital Services Act, the US INFORM Act, and shifting US marketplace tax rules, mitigating over $100MM in potential regulatory and tax liabilities on accelerated timelines.
Led my cohort through 2 acquisitions, maintaining morale and ensuring business continuity.
Helped scale the engineering team from ~10 when I joined to ~50 before Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games in 2022.

Sr. Software Engineer @ Bandcamp Remote | Oct 2015 -- Oct 2018

Built multiple payments and accounting systems, including Bandcamp’s credit-card processing capabilities and refund and reversal services.
Helped drive adoption of Bandcamp’s new service framework by demonstrating its viability in mission critical roles.
More than a billion dollars of artist payouts have been processed by code I wrote.

Engineering Director @ Web Cube Austin, TX | Jan 2012 -- Oct 2015

Built an engineering team and opened our Austin office.
Developed a Python / Django e-commerce CMS that powered the D2C web platform used by Vuori, OluKai, Rip Curl, Dunlop, Alpinestars and other brands.
Created early stage mobile applications for clients for iOS, using native tools and languages like ObjectiveC.

Sr. Software Engineer @ CORESense Saratoga Springs NY | Jan 2007 -- Jan 2012

Software Engineer @ Request, Inc Ballston Spa NY | Oct 2005 -- Jan 2007

Wrote the firmware for an MP3 player that could catalog a terabyte of music in C++

BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY

10+ years of experience coding in Python, Ruby, C, C++, Rust, Typescript and Javascript
Proficiency in transactional SQL with MySQL and Postgres, and data analysis with Snowflake and BigQuery
Experience deploying production systems with Docker, AWS and GCP