Kevin Lappe.
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A product leader and hands-on builder working at the intersection of data, AI, and the systems people depend on.

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Kevin Lappe

Principal, EPP.AL

Good systems strengthen
the people using them.

I’ve spent my career working on platforms where the details matter: experimentation, developer tools, financial services, and mortgage technology.

The consistent problem is making complex work easier to understand and safer to carry out. That means getting clear about the decision, the information behind it, and the person responsible for the result.

EPP.AL brings that discipline to AI and data consulting. I help teams define a useful scope, build around their existing information, and evaluate the result against real work. I also build and maintain independent tools, so the practice stays connected to implementation.

You work directly with me. The scope, rate, and deliverables are agreed before we begin.

Selected career experience.

Prior employment and consulting experience. These organizations are not presented as EPP.AL clients or endorsers.

2022 to 2026

Google

Senior Product Manager, Experimentation Platform

Product work on experimentation, controlled rollout, and the systems people use to make production changes.

2019 to 2022

Amazon Web Services

Senior Product Manager, AWS Developer Tools Research

Built a developer tools research program across a portfolio of AWS services.

2018

CloudVirga

Product Management Consultant

Product consulting in digital mortgage technology.

2015 to 2018

Capital One

Digital Product Manager

Digital product work in a regulated financial services environment, including delivery infrastructure.

Earlier experience also includes Genalyte, Blockforce Capital / OnRamp Invest, Cohesive Solutions, Gap Inc., and Kohl’s.

How I like to work.

Start with the question

Understand what someone needs to decide before choosing the technology.

Make it inspectable

Keep sources, assumptions, limits, and review points within reach.

Finish the handover

Make the result understandable to the people who will use and maintain it.

Bring the problem.
Let’s find the useful part.

A workflow that takes too long. A document pile that keeps growing. A promising idea that needs a clearer scope.

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