Kevin Berry
Principal DevOps Engineer at PrizePicks
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Berry is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating resilient, cloud-native infrastructure from startups to large-scale AWS customers. Currently leading DevOps at PrizePicks after SRE and reliability leadership roles at Hopin and SparkPost, he blends hands-on automation, observability, and migration expertise with team mentorship to improve reliability and compliance. He has driven complex platform work such as TLS and Redis migrations, PostgreSQL upgrades and fault-tolerant replication, and created tooling to surface hard-to-observe AWS quota usage. Comfortable across public cloud, co-located, and private-cloud environments, he has a long history of modernizing legacy stacks with containers, configuration management, and monitoring. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Kevin is an open-source-minded operator who repeatedly turns monoliths into microservices-friendly platforms and embeds SRE practices into product teams. He’s known for practical, low-drama solutions that scale and for spreading institutional knowledge across global engineering teams.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Tarrant County College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
notification10
daemontools10
weechat10
runit9
slack9
sparkpost8
ruby-wrapper6
dedicated6
stress-testing5
hiredis5
monitoring4
reliability4
reliability-engineering3
twitch3
freeswitch3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rubyists/runit-services
Apr 2011 - May 2016
Common Services to run under runit (some work with daemontools, too)
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
daemontoolsrunit
dfwsre/reliabilityengineering.io
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
A resource website dedicated to Reliability Engineering
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 6 months
stress-testingdedicatedreliability-engineeringreliabilityengineering
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