Ken Crowell
Senior Staff DevOps Engineer at Evidation
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolKen Crowell is a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platform and infrastructure tooling from Nova Scotia, Canada. He has led DevOps teams and been the primary platform resource for data engineering and backend teams at Evidation, driving adoption of Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, Snowflake, Airflow and CI/CD automation. Ken’s background spans startups and enterprise roles—designing Kubernetes migrations, ChatOps-driven deployment systems, multi-cloud automation, and durable CI pipelines—often stepping into team lead and cross-functional troubleshooting roles quickly. He cut his teeth on configuration management and support at SaltStack/VMware and earlier built reproducible build and test infrastructure at BlackBerry and AOL, which informs his pragmatic focus on reliability and observability. Comfortable diving into code, infrastructure, or customer-facing incidents, he pairs deep technical troubleshooting with product-minded automation. A former chemistry MSc who transitioned into ops, he brings a scientific approach to instrumentation and iterative improvement in platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Linguistics at University of Toronto - Woodsworth CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hon.) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Hon.) Chemistry at Acadia UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Chemistry, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Chemistry at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
2,678reputation
231kreached
29answers
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perl
top-5%
jinja2
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
python10
terraform10
automation10
infrastructure10
rex10
rake10
remote-execution10
ecosystem10
prompt-tuning10
docker-compose10
faker10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
golang10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
oeuftete/puzpy
Mar 2019 - May 2022
Python library for reading and writing across lite crossword puzzle .puz files.
Contributions:50 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 2 months
python-librarycrosswordpythoncrossword-puzzleacross-lite
oeuftete/salt
Jul 2015 - Aug 2022
Infrastructure automation and management system
Contributions:3 PRs, 156 pushes, 85 branches in 7 years 2 months
management-systeminfrastructure-automationdevopsitilansible
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