Kacy Fortner
Engineering Manager at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKacy Fortner is an engineering manager and former founder with 16 years building infrastructure, reliability, and security systems across startups and Google-scale organizations. Currently leading teams at Google after a stint shepherding Fitbit integrations, Kacy combines hands-on SRE and cloud security experience with product instincts honed as a co-founder of Cloudforecast (a YC Startup School alum). Past roles include platform leadership at Gowalla and early-stage engineering at ad tech and SaaS companies, giving him deep expertise in real-time systems and scalable back-end operations. Based in New York, he pairs an engineer’s attention to detail with investor-level judgment as an angel investor and techno-optimist from a small town — comfortable both shipping code and advising founders.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
ruby-sdk10
graphiql9
meilisearch9
gcp9
hcl9
aws9
google-cloud9
vscode9
cli8
codemirror8
authentication8
kubernetes-deployment8
jwt8
authorization8
ide8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kacy/nft-avatar
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
instacart/cwam
May 2017 - Aug 2017
CloudWatch Alarms Manager. Easy way to create default CloudWatch Alarms for AWS resources.
Contributions:16 commits in 2 months
awscloudwatch-alarms
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