Kevin Green
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Braintrust
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Green is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 7 years of experience building and scaling backend systems at high-growth companies, most recently moving from Staff Software Engineer at Instacart to a cloud-focused role at Braintrust. He has deep hands-on experience in distributed systems, concurrency and DevOps practices, evidenced by contributions to the Buildkite Agent where he improved file locking and robustness in Go. At Instacart he progressed through multiple senior engineering levels while helping scale operations across SF and Toronto, blending platform engineering with pragmatic product delivery. Earlier roles at Amazon and a robotics co-op show a foundation in high-throughput systems and embedded/platform services. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs production-grade engineering with a global perspective cultivated during a year of travel through Asia and the Americas. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of reliability, automation, and developer experience, and enjoys tackling subtle concurrency and maintainability challenges.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at University of Guelph
Github Skills (10)
locking10
locks10
go10
cicd10
concurrency10
continuous-integration9
testing9
continuous-delivery8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/agent
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on improving the Buildkite agent's internal locking mechanisms and general maintainability. They refactored the file locking implementation, switching from `nightlyone/lockfile` to `gofrs/lockfile` and then further updated it to leverage a file lock implementation. The user also modified tests to ensure the file locking mechanism functioned correctly and implemented an experiment to toggle the file locking implementations. The user contributed to the project's core functionality by enhancing the robustness of concurrency management.
continuous-deploymentgolangbuild-jobsjobsenvironments
instacart/test-summary-buildkite-plugin
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Buildkite plugin to summarise all test failures as an annotation
Contributions:6 releases, 8 reviews, 17 PRs in 2 years 3 months
testingbuildkitebuildkite-pluginfailuresannotation
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