Summary
Kevin Runde is a seasoned DevOps and data engineering leader with 16 years of experience building scalable SaaS platforms and CI/CD-driven cloud infrastructures. He has led cross-functional teams from startup-sized squads to 17-person organizations, delivering multiple AWS-hosted SaaS products, preview environments, and database-per-tenant security improvements. Kevin is skilled at turning constrained resources into on-time, production-grade results—restoring critical systems after major outages and designing resilient pipelines that feed ML models and analytics. His hands-on background spans Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitLab, AWS and GCP, combined with strong software design and UML discipline. Based in Madison, WI, he pairs platform-level architecture with practical developer enablement, often building the processes and teams that sustain long-term delivery. A pragmatic tinkerer, he’s equally comfortable debugging Aurora performance issues as he is mentoring engineers and formalizing engineering best practices.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
English