Colin Kirk
Director, Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Galaxy
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolColin Kirk is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years building and modernizing cloud-native infrastructure, now directing Site Reliability Engineering at Galaxy from Longmont, Colorado. He has repeatedly led Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD adoptions at scale—turning multi-week manual standups into automated, sub-30 minute deployments and saving six-figure operational costs through automation. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and manager, Colin has architected global Kubernetes platforms, hardened air-gapped clusters, and developed production Flask services to simplify ML inference workflows. His background spans startups to enterprise (Tenable, DataRobot, Seagate), giving him a pragmatic eye for vendor selection, audit readiness, and platform reliability. Unusually for an SRE leader, he pairs aerospace engineering roots and an art-history degree with a CS master’s, reflecting a blend of systems thinking and wide intellectual curiosity. Currently not open to opportunities, he focuses on scaling teams and operational excellence across cloud-native environments.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Art History Criticism and Conservation, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Art History Criticism and Conservation at Arkansas State UniversityMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (13)
logging8
streaming8
java7
transport7
jruby6
web-application5
logstash5
webpack-loader4
loader4
webpack-plugin4
htmlhint4
etl-framework4
webpack3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ArmRay/Arm_Ray_App
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:51 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 months
web-application
colinwkirk/cwk_timezone
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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