Kevin Porter
Senior Director Of Engineering at Aerospike
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Porter is a Senior Director of Engineering with 14 years of software and systems experience, currently leading engineering at Aerospike from a hands-on product and platform perspective. He rose through multiple technical and leadership roles at Aerospike since 2013, blending deep systems knowledge with operational experience in high-performance distributed databases. Prior service as a Signals Intelligence Maintenance Technician in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve informs his disciplined approach to reliability, security, and mission-critical engineering. Based in Los Gatos, CA, he pairs a UC Berkeley education with a career-long focus on shipping resilient, low-latency systems at scale and mentoring teams to bridge legacy constraints and modern cloud-native practices.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at University of California, BerkeleyAS, AS at Community College of the Air ForceAS, AS at Yuba College
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Github Skills (168)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kportertx/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:33 pushes in 7 years 4 months
dotfilesdotbotinstallerzsh
aerospike-examples/aerospike-bloom-filter-example
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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