Kevin Watters

Kevin Watters has had a long and varied career in the software industry. Kevin began their career in 2000 as a SQA Automation Engineer at Quantum Bridge Communications, where they developed an automation test environment and scripting language for rapid development of test scripts. In 2002, they moved to Fast Search & Transfer ASA as a Senior Solution Architect, where they created a portal for search.comcast.net. In 2007, they joined Attivio as a Principal Software Engineer, where they helped implement base linguistic capabilities and implemented the initial version of geo search capabilities for AIE. Additionally, they implemented the initial relevancy model for AIE to extend and improve upon the base lucene relevancy. In 2010, they became an Independent Software Consultant at IntraLinks and also founded KMW Technology, a boutique firm specializing in enterprise search technology, including FAST ESP/Datasearch/Unity, Attivio AIE, Solr/Lucene, and others. At KMW Technology, they serve as CEO and Owner, offering consulting services to help architect and deploy custom data management and information retrieval solutions.

Kevin Watters obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Northeastern University between 1995 and 2000. Kevin also holds a Certificate of Completion in Deep Learning Training Using DL4J from Skymind.ai - Deep Learning for the JVM, obtained in February 2018.