Summary
Kevin Pearson is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale live video and cloud services from Los Angeles. He has driven reliability and incident management at Twitch and TikTok LIVE US, founding Video Operations at Twitch and contributing critical tooling, alert aggregation, and disaster recovery processes that reduced alert noise and improved operational readiness. At TikTok LIVE he led Go-based configuration tooling, automated monitoring for global queues, and org-wide training and alarm standardization efforts, becoming a trusted Incident Management partner. His background spans hands-on systems engineering, automation, and runbook-driven process improvements across AWS, Linux, and observability stacks. Known for turning major outages into organizational learning, he combines technical depth with coaching and documentation to raise team maturity. Outside incident rooms, he quietly champions testing and CI/CD to harden delivery pipelines and reclaim lost telemetry.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
German, English