Kai Lovingfoss
Software Engineer - SRE Production Eng. at Yahoo
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Lovingfoss is a software engineer specializing in Site Reliability and Platform Engineering with eight years of experience building automation and self-healing infrastructure at scale. Currently at Yahoo’s Search & Advertising team, he writes Python and Go to automate deployment pipelines, auto-triage downed hosts, and integrate monitoring and incident tooling to reduce on-call toil. Previously at American Express he helped raise availability from 99.1% to 99.9%, led datacenter validations and network builds, and automated hundreds to thousands of routine tasks with Ansible, Prometheus, and React dashboards. Kai pairs hands-on scripting with a developer-centric SRE mindset, shipping integrations across Slack, OpsGenie, Jira and Moogsoft to reclaim engineering time. He’s actively expanding expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift, idiomatic Go, and cloud IaC like CloudFormation and Terraform while picking up Java/Scala for compute-heavy systems. Based in Seattle, he brings a practical blend of distributed-systems curiosity and measurable reliability impact in adtech and financial environments.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree IR (Major) / Computer Science (senior seminars and thesis), Bachelor's degree IR (Major) / Computer Science (senior seminars and thesis) at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (85)
server-side-javascript9
dispatch8
server-side8
reducers8
thunk8
sprint8
redux-thunk8
ethereum-token8
media-queries8
preprocessing8
infura7
esoteric-programming-language7
code-golf7
authentication7
mongodb7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tryingtokeepup/tryingtokeepup.github.io
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:46 PRs, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
tryingtokeepup/kais-blog
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
This will be an awesome blog.
Contributions:79 PRs, 104 pushes, 80 branches in 1 year 7 months
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