Averi Kitsch is a Technical Lead and Platform Strategist based in Seattle with 8 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native tooling and sample integrations for Google Cloud across Go, Node.js, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, and .NET. She blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—automating CI/CD with GitHub Actions for Cloud Run and gcloud, refactoring App Engine samples, and integrating services like Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and third-party email/SMS providers—so teams can adopt best practices quickly. Averi is a prolific open-source contributor to high-profile GoogleCloudPlatform and googleapis projects, routinely improving documentation, region tagging, and deployability of official cloud samples. Comfortable bridging research-level thinking and pragmatic engineering, she’s known for untangling deployment complexity and shipping reproducible examples that accelerate developer success.
A GitHub Action for deploying services to Google Cloud Run.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:125 reviews, 31 commits, 161 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Averi primarily focused on automating the deployment of services to Google Cloud Run using GitHub Actions. Their contributions include transferring the Cloud Run action, adding a wait function for service readiness, and integrating source deploys and traffic updates. The user also introduced example workflows and updated dependencies to optimize the deployment process.
A GitHub Action for installing and configuring the gcloud CLI.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:2 releases, 103 reviews, 67 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Averi primarily focused on automating the deployment and configuration of the gcloud CLI using GitHub Actions. Their contributions involved creating, modifying, and refactoring the `appengine-deploy` action and refactoring the setup-gcloud action. This included setting up authentication, configuring the project ID, and integrating the action into CI/CD workflows, thus ensuring the automated deployment of applications to Google Cloud. They also added testing components and updated the documentation.
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