Kyle Robertson
Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorKyle Robertson is a Software Engineer III with nine years of experience, currently shaping incident response tooling and reliability at GitHub from Detroit, Michigan. He leads the development of incident response automation, data pipelines for post-mortems, and standardized SLO practices while championing distributed tracing to map service dependencies and ownership. His prior roles span Site Reliability Engineering and Systems Engineering at Rocket Mortgage, and software engineering at Quicken Loans, where he worked on cloud architectures and CI/CD automation. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the Terratest Go library to improve Terraform infrastructure testing, including variable extraction, core module enhancements, and test coverage. Kyle's background blends hands-on backend development, reliability engineering, and governance of incident response processes, enabling scalable, observable systems. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer and Information Science from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and has built a broad toolkit across cloud, automation, and testing domains.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
21reputation
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Github Skills (16)
terraformer10
testing-library10
go10
devops10
terraform10
testing10
aws9
hcl9
docker8
dockerce8
dockers8
azure-pipelines6
sonarqube-scanner6
sonarqube6
tfs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on enhancing the `terratest` library for infrastructure testing, particularly concerning Terraform. Their contributions include refactoring variable extraction from Terraform variable files, adding new functions for extracting variables, and implementing corresponding tests. These changes involved modifying core modules related to Terraform options and error handling, and also included adding test cases for the new functionality. This demonstrates a focus on improving the library's capabilities for interacting with Terraform configurations and validating infrastructure code.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
alpacamybags118/FuelUp
Dec 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 PRs, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
fuelup
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