Kevin Carter
Product Director at Rackspace Technology
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Carter is a Product Director and seasoned cloud infrastructure leader with 14 years of experience building and shipping large-scale OpenStack and hybrid cloud platforms. He blends hands-on engineering pedigree—from principal engineer roles and OpenStack project leadership to QA contributions in notable tooling like Test Kitchen—with product stewardship that prioritizes rapid iteration, transparency, and customer-centric outcomes. Known for tackling thorny infrastructure challenges, he has a track record of turning overwhelmed teams into high-performing units and scaling resilient platforms for complex ecosystems including blockchain. Based in San Antonio, he returned to Rackspace to further advance open cloud capabilities and reinvest in open-source communities he’s long contributed to. Beyond architecture and delivery, he focuses on empowering teams, mentorship, and practical innovation that survives in production. A pragmatic tinkerer at heart, he still contributes test-suite improvements and configuration hardening in upstream projects to keep operational realities aligned with product vision.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Business, Computer Science and Business at College of Marin
Github Skills (4)
testing10
test-kitchen10
rubygems10
ruby10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
test-kitchen/test-kitchen
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the test suite by adding and modifying tests related to configuration loading within the Test Kitchen project. Their work included writing tests to verify the behavior of data bags, roles, and custom paths. The commits also included formatting and whitespace fixes within the test code. The changes focused on ensuring the correct loading and use of configuration overrides within the test environment.
testingmanaged-by-terraformruby-gemtest-kitchenruby
gondoi/dotfiles
Sep 2013 - Dec 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 18 pushes in 8 years 4 months
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