Kevin Mueller
Principle Architect, Cloud FinOps at Presidio
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Mueller is a principal architect and FinOps-certified engineering leader with 20+ years building low-latency, high-scale trading systems and cloud-native SaaS platforms. He has driven end-to-end delivery from patented CI/CD and QA processes to event-driven architectures that handled tens of millions of transactions per second at major exchanges. At AWS he helped author the Well-Architected SaaS Lens and at CloudZero he combined deep operational debugging with cost engineering to dramatically reduce agent memory and telemetry costs while accelerating revenue growth. More recently he focuses on cloud financial optimization at Presidio and contributes to FinOps Foundation work on cloud unit economics. Known for fostering inclusive, no-blame teams, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product and cost stewardship—a rare mix honed across exchanges, fintech, and cloud vendors. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of translating chaotic, high-stakes production problems into repeatable, auditable processes that scale.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (90)
aws10
log-viewer9
development-kit9
cloudwatch9
logging9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
amazon9
ansible8
provisioning8
vultr8
monitoring8
python8
infrastructure8
security8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Cloudzero/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
Dec 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 26 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Cloudzero/cloudzero-k8s-charts
Dec 2021 - Jul 2023
CloudZero helm charts to be deployed on Kubernetes.
Contributions:5 reviews, 33 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 year 7 months
chartshelmcloudzerohelm-chartskubernetes
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