Chad Crowell
Tech Lead TAG Operational Resilience
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
4 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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Github Skills (82)
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kubernetes10
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release-management9
k3s9
storage9
vault8
external-secrets-operator8
kubernetes-cluster8
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crossplane8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
chadmcrowell/k8supfun
Apr 2021 - Aug 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
chadmcrowell/killercoda-scenarios
Mar 2022 - May 2026
Kubernetes scenarios on Killercoda https://killercoda.com/
Contributions:629 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 4 years 2 months
kubernetes
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