Kalen Wessel
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Zapier
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKalen Wessel is a senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Vancouver with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient, scalable systems across SaaS environments. Currently at Zapier after leading operations teams at Everbridge and xMatters, he blends incident response, automation, and platform improvements to reduce toil and improve reliability. His background spans DevOps and IT operations roles dating back to BCIT-trained network security and administration, giving him a strong foundation in both infrastructure and security practices. Known for moving between hands-on engineering and team leadership, he often surfaces practical reliability wins that quietly improve developer velocity and customer experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Network Security and Administration, Network Security and Administration at British Columbia Institute of Technology / BCIT
Github Skills (110)
vault10
secrets9
golang9
api9
apartment9
api-gateway9
cli8
service-discovery8
hashicorp8
modem8
hashicorp-vault8
data-center8
encryption8
k8s8
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KalenWessel/lockandkey
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
lockweb-front-endapartmentmodemfront-end
KalenWessel/wedding
Nov 2019 - May 2020
A simple rails app for distributing wedding information and managing the guest list.
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubyguest
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