Kevin Blues
Senior Build Engineer at Cisco
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Blues is a Senior Build Engineer with 11 years of cross-functional experience in DevOps, SRE and full-stack development, currently driving build reliability at Cisco after four years elevating platform stability and developer experience at Thinkific. He focuses on removing developer friction—automating pipelines, hardening Linux-based systems, and championing Docker-centered workflows—to make engineering faster and less error-prone. Kevin blends hands-on systems troubleshooting with a teaching mindset, preferring to root-cause failures and share debugging practices so teams learn to prevent repeats. His background spans web development, audio engineering and customer-facing roles, giving him a practical appreciation for usability and operational empathy. Based in Vancouver, he’s an avid learner of new languages and frameworks and brings a craftsperson’s attention to detail from hobbies like music and woodworking into the reliability work he does.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Associate Certificate Applied Software Development with Distinction, Associate Certificate Applied Software Development with Distinction at British Columbia Institute of Technology / BCITAssociate Certificate Audio Engineering and Production, Associate Certificate Audio Engineering and Production at Pacific Audio Visual InstituteWeb Development Bootcamp Full-Stack Web Development, Web Development Bootcamp Full-Stack Web Development at Lighthouse Labs
English
Github Skills (50)
docker-compose9
filestack9
docker8
filepicker8
sinatra8
golang8
docker-image8
uploader8
docker-toolbox7
orchestration6
vscode6
go6
vscode-extension6
image-processing6
file-upload5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kbluescode/flaming-computing-machine
May 2015 - Jul 2022
A Choose Your Own Adventure Web App built from Sinatra!
Contributions:2 reviews, 76 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 3 months
railschoose-your-own-adventuresinatraruby
thinkific/cloud-secret-env
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 10 PRs in 4 years 5 months
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