Kevin Amado
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Drata
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Amado is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with seven years of software engineering experience focused on cybersecurity and financial systems, currently based in Calgary. He has progressed rapidly through senior and principal engineering roles at startups and scale-ups, shaping projects that improved processes, people outcomes, and company revenue. A security-first generalist, Kevin blends backend reliability work with pragmatic leadership, and he actively contributes to open source—improving developer experience in the notable Nix package manager by hardening error reporting around infinite recursion. He holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering and brings an unusual mix of civil engineering training and security-focused software craftsmanship to complex, production-critical systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Civil Engineering, Engineer's degree Civil Engineering at Universidad Industrial de SantanderMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Software Engineering at University of Calgary
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
debugging10
debug10
functional-programming10
c-language10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
nix10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
NixOS/nix
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving error messages related to infinite recursion within the Nix package manager. Their contributions included adding position information to functions like `forceValue`, `fetchMercurial`, `fetchTree`, and `fetch`, which improved the debugging experience. They also addressed infinite recursion issues in `builtins.toXML`. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the robustness and developer experience of the Nix package manager.
functional-programmingnixosdeclarative-languagec-plus-pluspackage-manager
kamadorueda/nixel
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 63 pushes, 14 tags in 7 months
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