Coal Kettler
Staff DevOps Engineer, Cloud Platform
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCoal Kettler is a Staff DevOps Engineer and strategic leader with 11+ years building secure, cost-effective cloud platforms and guiding distributed infrastructure teams. Based in Philadelphia, he combines hands-on AWS/Terraform expertise with a focus on NIST-aligned security and compliance, having consulted for federal agencies and the CDC on sensitive public health and insider-threat systems. Known for empathetic communication and trust-based management, he accelerates team growth by normalizing candid feedback and designing durable cultural and technical changes. Coal repeatedly delivers improved delivery workflows, remediation automation, and measurable increases in deployment frequency while keeping reliability and cost in check. Notably, he moves fluidly between hands-on engineering and high-level influence, making him both the technical glue and strategic catalyst for cross-functional alignment.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (198)
imagery10
satellite10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
access-keys10
classification10
semantic-segmentation10
pytorch10
geospatial10
flask-api10
gunicorn9
django-management-command9
amazon-ecs9
aws-services9
css-transitions9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
colekettler/generator-flask-api
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
A Yeoman generator for RESTful Flask APIs.
Contributions:8 releases, 87 commits, 88 pushes in 8 months
apipythonflask-apirestfulflask
PublicMapping/districtbuilder-website
May 2020 - Nov 2020
DistrictBuilder online docs.
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
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