Kevin Kirkpatrick
Principal Cloud Architect at Independent
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Kirkpatrick is a Principal Cloud Architect with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing scalable, cost-conscious data center and cloud solutions that align technical delivery with business outcomes. Based in Pittsburgh, he has progressed from systems administration and quality coordination at a major industrial firm to enterprise- and cloud-architect roles, most recently joining Oracle after six years as a Cloud Architect at Advizex. He specializes in transforming traditional IT practices, leading cross-functional teams, and translating business inputs into strategies that balance performance, reliability, scalability, value, and risk. An active independent technical community contributor since 2011, he pairs practical operations experience with cloud and AI focus areas, and brings a practical founder’s mindset from years running a small business.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Information Systems, Bachelors of Science Information Systems at Robert Morris UniversityVMware Training Course
English
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Github Skills (26)
vsphere10
network-automation10
tesla9
vmware9
powershell-module9
powercli8
horizon8
diceware7
passphrase7
api7
powershell6
passwords6
periodic6
health6
validation5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nullzeroio/PowerShell
Sep 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 16 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 9 months
powershellhandypowershell-scripts
vScripter/vsphere-inventory
May 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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