Adam K
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead at Insider, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam K is a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer and Tech Lead based in Seattle with 10 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud-native platforms. He specializes in automating infrastructure and observability—moving services to AWS, managing EKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Datadog, and ELK—and consistently drives tooling and documentation to reduce toil. Adam has progressed from hands-on data center and Windows/Linux operations to leading SRE practices at scale for companies like Zillow, Zulily, and Insider, pairing deep operational expertise with pragmatic engineering. Known for obsessively documenting systems and creating practical automation, he blends infrastructure craftsmanship with a preference for open source tooling to deliver reliable, auditable systems. He also brings a background in applied technology and networking education that informs thorough change management and capacity planning.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AAS-DTA, AA Networking Services and Computing Systems, Server Administration, Network Administration, Network Services, Computer Management, AAS-DTA, AA Networking Services and Computing Systems, Server Administration, Network Administration, Network Services, Computer Management at Bellevue CollegeBS Applied Technology, Workplace Technology Implementation, Ethics, BS Applied Technology, Workplace Technology Implementation, Ethics at Eastern Washington University
Github Skills (15)
transmission6
command-line5
python5
openvpn5
docker-container5
kubectl5
docker4
torrent4
google3
debugging3
backup3
google-photos2
prometheus2
kubernetes2
kubernetes-monitoring1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
abkierstein/pwpush
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Command line Python password pusher via pwpush.com
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
command-linepython
abkierstein/dmotiv8
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Tool to grab MOTD-like quotes from twitter
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
twitter-botgrabquotesmotdtwitter
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