Kevin Landreth
Principal SRE at Zayo Group
Lavon, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Landreth is a Principal SRE with 13+ years building and operating infrastructure for dedicated servers, CDN and networking companies, currently shaping reliability at Zayo Group after leadership stints at Seagate and PacketFabric. He combines deep open-source roots and hands-on engineering—contributing Python improvements and tests to SoftLayer's widely used softlayer-python client—with expertise in automation (Ansible, SaltStack), hybrid cloud, and enterprise server architecture. Known in some circles as CrackerJackMack, he moves fluidly between strategic product engineering and day-to-day ops, often stepping in as the "I'll take a look" engineer who turns firefights into sustainable systems. Based in Lavon, Texas, he pairs practical SRE rigor with a long institutional memory of the dedicated server industry, making him adept at modernizing legacy platforms without losing operational continuity.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Houston
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
python10
apidoc9
api9
unit-testing9
dns8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
softlayer/softlayer-python
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
A set of Python libraries that assist in calling the SoftLayer API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the SoftLayer Python library. Their contributions included code cleanup and adhering to PEP8 standards across multiple files. They also added unit tests for the DNS module and made adjustments for Python 3 compatibility. Additionally, they implemented features within the CCI module, demonstrating familiarity with the library's API interactions.
apicallingpythonsoftlayerassist
CrackerJackMack/pushover-mdadm-event-monitor
Sep 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
eventspushovermdadm
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