Kevin Porter
Senior Director Of Engineering at Aerospike
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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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
Github Skills (115)
python10
automation10
nosql-database10
cppcheck10
cpp10
ssh10
monitoring10
static-analysis10
latency10
chaos10
ansible10
chaos-engineering10
cpu10
cross-platform10
java10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kportertx/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:34 pushes in 8 years 9 months
dotfilesdotbotinstallerzsh
citrusleaf/lz4
Jun 2021 - May 2026
Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 11 months
deflatecompressiondata-storagesnappygzip
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