Kevin Monroe
Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Monroe is a Staff Software Engineer in Austin with 11 years of professional experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and deployment tooling. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes and Charmed Kubernetes delivery from his decade at Canonical, and now focuses on secure, scalable software deployment through Chainguard Images. Kevin's background spans systems-level engineering at IBM—enabling POWER hardware and embedded Linux builds—to hands-on DevOps contributions to Apache Bigtop for Hadoop packaging and automation. He combines platform architecture, release engineering, and configuration management knowledge to simplify complex distributed systems for operators. Known for pragmatic automation, he often moves between low-level portability work and high-level orchestration, which helps teams ship reliable, observable platforms. Based in Austin, he blends long-term enterprise experience with active open-source collaboration to drive production-grade infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Github Skills (7)
puppeteer10
hadoop10
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devops9
bigtop9
javas3
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bigtop
May 2016 - Aug 2018
Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:74 commits, 58 PRs, 66 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin Boudnik's commits primarily focused on improving the deployment and configuration of the Bigtop project, particularly within the Hadoop ecosystem. They removed and added references to HDFS within the resourcemanager role and added mapred and yarn dependencies to the nodemanager and client classes within Puppet manifests. Moreover, Boudnik contributed by adding Juju charms, including a processing bundle and updates to existing charms. This work demonstrates a focus on infrastructure automation, packaging, and configuration management within the Hadoop big data framework.
javaapachebig-databigtop
juju-solutions/bundle-beats-core
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 3 years
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