Kevin Paulisse
Software Engineer at Render
Middleton, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Paulisse is a seasoned software and infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently at Render and formerly a principal engineer at Astronomer and staff engineer at Stripe, he blends hands-on Golang development with deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), security, and operational excellence. Kevin has a strong track record of turning fragile systems into resilient services—re-architecting Vault, leading multi-region disaster recovery, and driving a company-wide incident management program. He also created cross-company hiring and compliance processes at Stripe and authored open-source tools used at scale (notably contributions to puppet-lint and GitHub’s provisioning/entitlements work). Based in Middleton, Wisconsin and grounded in a math/chemistry background from Hope College, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment, a penchant for automation, and a history of reducing toil while improving security and deploy confidence.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics Chemistry, BS Mathematics Chemistry at Hope College
Github Skills (10)
puppeteer10
gemspec10
gemfile10
puppet10
rubygems10
ruby10
environment-variables9
configuration-management8
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rodjek/puppet-lint
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Check that your Puppet manifests conform to the style guide
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the functionality of the `puppet-lint` tool by modifying how plugins are loaded. Key contributions include enabling the loading of prerelease plugins based on environment variables and introducing a dedicated method for this. The user also reverted an earlier change and then refactored the code related to prerelease plugin loading.
style-guidemanifestspuppet
kpaulisse/simplecov-erb
Feb 2018 - Sep 2022
Customizable text formatter for the ruby 1.9+ coverage gem SimpleCov
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 36 commits in 4 years 7 months
beautifiersimplecovlibphonenumberrubycustomizable
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