Chad Crowell
SIG Release Kubernetes Release Team Member at Akamai Technologies
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolChad Crowell is a Principal Site Reliability and Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling production Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. He currently contributes to the Kubernetes SIG Release team while driving reliability, GitOps, and automation at Akamai, having previously managed managed-K3s services and platform security at Civo and Raft. An author and instructor—writer of Acing the CKA and founder of a 90-day CKA certification program—he blends hands-on engineering with practical teaching that has helped hundreds earn certification. Chad is also an active community organizer for CNCF events (Kubernetes Community Days) and brings measurable outcomes in observability, CI/CD, and incident response. He pairs deep tooling experience (Terraform, Argo CD, Prometheus, SaltStack, Vault) with a knack for simplifying complex operational workflows to reduce toil. Based in Valencia, Spain, he combines enterprise-scale SRE practice with a talent for turning certification curriculum into career acceleration.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Applied Information Technology, B.Sc Applied Information Technology at St. John Fisher UniversityRochester Institute of TechnologyFront-End Web Development 101, Front-End Web Development 101 at New York Code + Design Academy
English, Spanish
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
chadmcrowell/acing-the-cka-exam
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
chadmcrowell/k8s
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 40 pushes in 1 year
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