Kevin Goldsmith is the Chief Technical Officer at Avvo in Seattle, overseeing all Research and Development, Data Engineering, Dev Ops and IT teams. Previously he was the Vice President of Engineering, Consumer at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden, where he led both the product development and streaming delivery organizations. Kevin was a Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems for nine years, where he led the Adobe Revel product group and the Adobe Image Foundation group. He spent eight years at Microsoft, where he was a member of the Windows Media, Windows CE CoreOS, and Microsoft Research teams. Kevin has also worked at such companies as Silicon Graphics, (Colossal) Pictures, Agnostic Media, and IBM. He has a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.