Summary
Justin Kalanchoe is a Senior Support Engineer with 16 years of experience building, monitoring, and stabilizing Linux-based web infrastructures for high-traffic organizations. Currently at The Washington Post, he combines deep hands-on skills with monitoring platforms (Datadog, APM, mPulse, CloudWatch, Splunk, Akamai) and Python automation to rapidly investigate incidents, author runbooks, and drive RCA and remediation. He previously managed and modernized production Linux environments, WordPress ecosystems, and cloud deployments at Intermarkets and led IT and web services for a multi-institution library consortium where he built a library hosting platform from scratch and migrated physical servers to virtualized infrastructure. Known for translating complex technical issues into accessible guidance, he pairs system administration, observability, and occasional front-end investigation (dev tools) to find root causes end-to-end. Collected experience in monitoring, automation, and capacity work gives him a knack for pragmatic, cost-effective reliability improvements that reduce repeat incidents.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
General, General at Columbia College
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Western Governors University