Kenya Barnes is a Site Reliability Engineer with eight years of professional experience and a formal software engineering background from Clayton State University. At State Farm and during internships at Squarespace and American Express, Kenya has built production-grade observability and reliability tooling—implementing Elasticsearch logging, Prometheus metrics and alerting, and incident notification workflows that measurably improved response times. Comfortable with containerized deployments and Kubernetes, they also have hands-on backend experience building NodeJS and Java services and deploying features used broadly across organizations. Based in the Atlanta area, Kenya combines practical SRE rigor with a developer’s mindset, often bridging gaps between platform engineering and application teams to deliver resilient systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Morrow High School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Georgia State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Senior at Clayton State University
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