Summary
Devon Hakel-kinko is a Staff DevOps engineer based in Montreal with 11 years building and operating cloud-native systems across startups and scale-ups. He has driven production reliability and delivery at Sonder and Lightspeed after creating Kubernetes PaaS tooling, Jenkins/Argo CD pipelines, and multi-region GKE management. Previously he owned end-to-end infrastructure migration and CI/CD work—moving microservices to ECS, automating deployments, and building ephemeral QA environments—often as a solo ops lead. Devon pairs hands-on coding and automation with pragmatic incident and backlog management, and has experience designing large data-processing systems (a lidar conversion pipeline handling tens of TiB). His career shows a pattern of tackling migration and scaling challenges, favoring automation and reproducible infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer