Colin Hutchinson
Site Reliability Engineer at Function Health
Mapleton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Hutchinson is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Mapleton, Ontario. He has driven SRE and DevOps initiatives across startups and scale-ups, including architecting region-tolerant Kubernetes platforms on AWS EKS, automating CI/CD pipelines, and improving test and release automation for the Kong API Gateway. Colin blends hands-on coding in Python and Go with infrastructure-as-code for GCP and AWS, and has led reliability work that reduced downtime for data collection services at ObserveInc. He’s an active contributor to Kong’s ecosystem—improving docs, CI, Docker image automation, and Kubernetes test stability—demonstrating a practical focus on developer experience and operational quality. Colleagues rely on him for on-call incident response, cross-functional collaboration with product and sales, and mentoring teams in observability and CD tooling. Notably, he pairs deep platform engineering skills with a technical-writing mindset that keeps complex systems understandable and well-documented.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSC[G] Computer Science, BSC[G] Computer Science at University of Windsor
English
Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
automation-testing10
jekyll10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong-dist-kubernetes
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Kubernetes managed Kong cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 40 PRs, 81 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on enhancing the testing and CI/CD infrastructure for the Kubernetes-managed Kong cluster. They implemented and refined functional tests using `kong-build-tools`, addressing issues related to test execution and Kubernetes version compatibility. Key contributions included modifying testing configurations, adjusting CI settings, and ensuring the stability of tests across different Kubernetes environments. They also made significant contributions to testing, adjusting CI configurations, and addressing issues related to the Kong control plane.
managed-kubernetesk8skuberneteskongcluster
Kong/docker-kong
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
:monkey: Docker distribution for Kong
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:68 reviews, 192 commits, 238 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for the Kong Docker images. They updated the automation scripts to build and release Docker images, including the introduction of slim images and the management of versioning. The user also implemented security scans and a linter to improve the quality and security of the images. Furthermore, they improved the testing infrastructure for the project.
monkeydocker-distributiondockerdocker-composekong
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