Andrew Kesterson
Staff DevSecOps Engineer at BridgePhase
Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Kesterson is a Staff DevSecOps Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating secure, scalable infrastructure for high-stakes environments, including DoD Platform One and revenue-generating systems at Nintendo. He combines deep technical skill in Kubernetes, automation, and platform engineering with proven leadership—managing teams, multimillion-dollar projects, and developer experience initiatives. Known for pragmatic simplicity and candid communication, he has modernized legacy HPC and SAP-adjacent environments and led community-of-practice efforts to raise organizational maturity. Outside of work he’s a longtime first responder and volunteer fire chief who mentors others and brings the discipline of field service and rural self-reliance—hunting, farming, and mechanics—into practical, resilient engineering choices.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Marshfield High School
Stackoverflow
515reputation
225kreached
7answers
0questions
Github Skills (83)
python10
xpath10
data-files9
bash9
unpack9
junit9
automl9
argument-parsing9
unit-test9
phaser8
ai8
rpg8
llmops8
rendering8
deep-learning8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Syncsecure/rvpacker
Apr 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
controlledrpggamemakerdata-filesknockoutjs
akesterson/cmdarg
Jul 2013 - Sep 2016
A bash library to make argument parsing far less troublesome
Contributions:59 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
argument-parsingbash
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