Kevin Falcone
Lead Software Engineer at LogRocket
United States
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Top SchoolKevin Falcone is a Lead Software Engineer with 19 years of experience who blends software architecture, databases, security, and performance into pragmatic infrastructure and operations leadership. At LogRocket and previously at edX, he has driven large migrations, cost-saving AWS optimizations, Terraform infrastructure standardization, and tooling that empowered developers to own production workflows. A seasoned contributor to Open edX and Request Tracker, he has hands-on experience automating deployments and improving deployment stacks, including integrating queueing services and refining Ansible and Jenkins-based pipelines. Kevin pairs technical depth with cross-organizational support—chairing security working groups and serving on global on-call rotations—while staying rooted in his community as a local bicycle committee member and avid knitter, a reminder that meticulous engineering often goes hand-in-hand with patient craft.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversitySt. George's School
Github Skills (34)
database-migrations10
docker10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
configuration-management10
bash10
perl10
dockers10
cicd10
sql10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
database-migration10
devops10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bestpractical/rt
Nov 2006 - Feb 2015
Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1647 commits, 1 comment in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's commits primarily focus on enhancing the back-end functionality of the RT issue tracking system. They made significant changes to the core modules, including RT::SearchBuilder and RT::Tickets_Overlay, to address security vulnerabilities and implement new features, such as custom field handling. Their work also extended to the front-end, particularly in the tools and reports areas. Furthermore, they were involved in optimizing the system's performance through modifications to database query logic.
helpdesk-ticketingtrackerenterprise-gradegradeperl
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:706 commits, 635 PRs, 708 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment configurations for the Open edX platform. Their contributions include updating the Flower configuration and enabling OAuth, modifying database sanitization scripts, configuring app monitoring with New Relic, and adapting nginx configurations for sandboxes. They also updated the build and deployment process, and made various changes to the ansible-provision.sh script.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
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