Adam Kinnell
DevOps Engineer at TrendAI
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Kinnell is a DevOps/SRE engineer based in Sydney with 8 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating cloud-native systems across AWS and Azure. He combines cost-conscious infrastructure work—driving $1.3M USD in annualized AWS savings through analysis and execution—with practical developer experience improvements like bespoke CI/CD tooling and mass-upgrade automation for hundreds of microservices. Comfortable in serverless stacks (Node.js, Lambda, Step Functions) and observability (Grafana, OpenSearch), he also led platform reliability projects that cut environment provisioning from months to weeks and replaced costly config management with simpler Managed Identity and DSC solutions. Known for clear documentation, mentoring across junior-to-senior engineers, and a pragmatic “best tool for the job” approach, he balances security, automation, and developer experience to keep services resilient and cost-effective.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Information Technology Systems Administration, Diploma Information Technology Systems Administration at TAFE NSWBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Western Sydney University
English, pseudocode
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AdamKinnell/16bit-custom-cpu
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
AdamKinnell/AdventOfCode2018
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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