Fulton Byrne
Software Engineering Manager at commercetools
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFulton Byrne is a Software Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native systems from Durham, NC. He currently leads engineering at commercetools after moving up from senior site reliability roles where he migrated Puppet-managed services to Kubernetes and designed cross-account AWS IAM practices. Fulton has deep hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, MongoDB at terabyte scale, Terraform provider development, and automating complex deployments to shrink lead times from hours to minutes. He pairs incident-driven root cause analysis with customer-facing architecture presentations, bridging operational rigor and stakeholder communication. A former IBM engineer, he has a track record of cutting build and deployment times dramatically and mentoring teams in pragmatic tooling and observability. Outside engineering he brings outdoor leadership experience—navigating and guiding rope teams—which informs his calm, decisive approach to leading teams under pressure.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Pace AcademyB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
Github Skills (200)
command-line-tool10
influxdb10
k8s10
hashicorp10
api10
vault10
bottom10
prometheus10
terragrunt10
visualization10
hcl10
controller10
terraform10
hashicorp-vault10
docker-compose10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
commercetools/mongodbatlas_exporter
Oct 2021 - May 2022
MongoDB Atlas exporter for Prometheus
Contributions:4 releases, 27 reviews, 86 commits in 7 months
exporterprometheus-exporteratlasprometheus-metricsprometheus
Freyert/freyert.github.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2024
You shall be my personal blog, considering code, from now until eternity.
Contributions:7 PRs, 28 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 10 months
untilnextjsmy-personal-blog
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