Ken Dreyer
Summary
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SeniorKen Dreyer is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience leading build and release engineering for large-scale storage and cloud platforms. He has driven Ceph and Red Hat storage release pipelines, created open-source tooling like koji-ansible and errata-tool-ansible, and authored Python libraries that automate Artifactory, CI, signing, and registry entitlement workflows. Ken has migrated and modernized build systems across organizations, implementing GitHub Actions and GitLab CI with self-hosted runners and multi-cloud administration across AWS, GCP, Azure, and IBM Cloud. In his recent work he blends release engineering with AI program delivery, developing integration testing practices for AWS Bedrock and Llama Stack. Known for mentoring senior engineers and codifying operational best practices, he excels at turning complex release processes into reliable, auditable pipelines. Based in Cary, NC, he combines deep systems and packaging expertise with a pragmatic open-source mindset that quietly underpins many production releases.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
visualization10
openafs9
automation-framework5
net-snmp4
perl3
mysql-server2
dropbox-api2
monitoring1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
usgs/perl-lsi-megasas
Nov 2011 - Jul 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 8 months
openafs/openafs
Feb 2011 - Mar 2013
Fork of OpenAFS from git.openafs.org for visualization
Contributions:32 commits in 2 years 1 month
openafsvisualization
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