Kenton Shade
CI CD Architect, DevOps Consultant, Founder at My Cirrus CI Cloud Solutions
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKenton Shade is a CI/CD architect, DevOps consultant, and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native pipelines and Linux-based infrastructure from startups to enterprise teams. He specializes in GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Jenkins migrations, frequently building custom Docker images, ephemeral self-hosted runners, and advanced caching strategies to speed delivery. Kenton blends systems administration, container orchestration (Kubernetes/Kops), and virtualization expertise with business analysis and vendor management to translate complex requirements into zero-touch, production-grade CI/CD solutions. His background includes acting as the exclusive Git/GitHub Actions SME for multiple large organizations and modernizing documentation build systems via bespoke Bash and automation tooling. Based in Atlanta, he pairs a creative early career in design and multimedia with deep operational instincts—often surfacing non-obvious efficiencies by treating build pipelines as both engineering and product problems.
5 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Industrial Psychology at Pennsylvania State University
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Github Skills (11)
newrelic10
jsinterop10
relic10
java9
security9
java-agent9
agent9
php7
ruby5
rpm4
apm-agent2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kentonshade/newrelic-php-agent
May 2021 - Nov 2022
The New Relic PHP Agent
Contributions:4 PRs, 358 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
agentsecurityphprelicnew-relic
kentonshade/newrelic-java-agent
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
The New Relic Java agent
Contributions:325 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
agentsecurityjava-agentjavanew-relic
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