Kevin Reedy
Senior Customer Success Architect at GitHub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Reedy is a Senior Customer Success Architect at GitHub with 17 years of experience designing and running scalable infrastructure, developer tools, and customer-facing platforms. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—contributions to Chef cookbooks for application deployment and Consul orchestration highlight his deep automation and configuration expertise—with customer-facing architecture and technical account leadership. As founder of RecRec he built a modern platform for recreational sports groups, applying product instincts to grow communities and improve retention while also streaming events. Kevin has led infrastructure migrations, dynamic load balancing topologies, and realtime logging pipelines at scale, and he thrives at the intersection of developer tooling and operational reliability. Based in Chicago, he pairs technical depth with advocacy, turning complex requirements into practical, measurable value for customers. Outside work he’s a shuffleboard player, cyclist and home cook, reflecting a practical, team-oriented mindset that informs his approach to product and community building.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Network Technologies (Security Concentration), BS Network Technologies (Security Concentration) at DePaul University
Github Skills (16)
chef-client10
consul10
chef-solo10
deploying10
devops10
ruby10
ruby-rails9
yaml9
unicorn9
bundler9
rails9
rake9
automation8
automations8
testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
May 2014 - Oct 2014
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily revolve around setting up and configuring the Consul service within a Chef cookbook, as indicated by modifications to init scripts, service configurations, and testing infrastructure. They implemented the service start/stop/restart logic, enabled the Consul service, and integrated it with the test suite. The user's work also included setting up the initial default recipe and kitchen suite. This involved specifying the install method and connecting to existing servers.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
poise/application_ruby
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Development repository for Opscode Cookbook application_ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the application_ruby cookbook, focusing on improving the application's configuration and deployment processes. They added the ability to configure the database host, making the application more flexible. Further enhancements include using an SSH wrapper for deployments when a deploy key is used and adding an option for specifying a custom runit template cookbook. These changes suggest a focus on back-end configuration and deployment automation.
railscookbookrubyruby-application
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