Kevin Carter
Principal Engineer at Figment
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Carter is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years building and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems, now applying that expertise to Web3 and decentralized infrastructure at Figment. He brings deep hands-on experience across bare metal, networking, virtualization, containers, and OpenStack—where he led OpenStack-Ansible as PTL and contributed meaningful deployment improvements to the widely used openstack-ansible project. A pragmatic technical leader, Kevin has driven systemic transformations at Rackspace and Red Hat, marrying systems engineering rigor with cloud-native and protocol-scale challenges. Notably, he also has firmware experience for ASIC/GPU mining rigs and a consistent history of prolific open-source work via multiple GitHub organizations. He enjoys forming focused teams, embracing failure as a learning tool, and unlocking hidden potential in people and platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Business, Computer Science and Business at College of Marin
Github Skills (13)
ansible10
automation10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
openstack10
cicd10
dockers9
infrastructure-as-code9
docker9
bash8
python7
debian6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-ansible
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Ansible playbooks for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the OpenStack-Ansible deployment process through various improvements. They implemented an option to disable container builds on specific hosts, providing deployment flexibility. Furthermore, the user updated the Ansible version and integrated log collection within the integrated gate for improved test analysis. The commits also include the addition of the manila service and modifications to the bootstrap script to include Debian.
deployingansibleopendevansible-playbooksopenstack
cloudnull/genestack
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Where Flex cloud brings infrastructures to where you are.
Contributions:33 PRs, 582 pushes, 255 branches in 1 year 3 months
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