Jake Kitchener
Senior Engineering Manager, Compute at Airbnb
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJake Kitchener is a seasoned cloud and systems engineering leader with 12+ years driving large-scale platform and DevOps transformations across IBM, Fidelity, and Airbnb. He architects and delivers highly available, compliant cloud-native platforms—having scaled IBM’s Kubernetes service to 25,000+ clusters and led Fidelity’s API and cloud platform growth while owning 99.95% SLAs. Jake blends hands-on technical design (containers, service mesh, serverless, GraphQL) with organizational scaling, growing teams by hundreds and building innersource communities. He’s a coauthor of books on enterprise Kubernetes and OpenShift, signaling deep practical expertise in hybrid-cloud operations. Based in Raleigh, he’s obsessed with pipeline, culture, and team organization—aiming to realize what he calls “cloud platform nirvana.” A not-obvious strength: he pairs strict compliance and security oversight with developer experience improvements to make enterprise platforms both safe and delightful to use.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (93)
golang9
api9
kubelet9
api-client9
kubernetes-setup9
docker9
kubernetes9
api-testing8
rest8
ecosystem8
rest-api8
k8s8
cosign8
websocket8
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kitch-razee/hello-app
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
ibm-containers/logo
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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