Kevin Salerno
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Salerno is an AWS-certified solutions architect and pragmatic engineering leader with 10 years of experience delivering cloud-native and full-stack systems across startups and enterprises. He has a strong track record introducing modern stacks—Angular, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless Lambdas, CDK and real-time event pipelines (Kinesis)—into legacy environments to reduce costs and accelerate delivery. Kevin has led cross-functional teams, managed product budgets, and shipped SaaS and IoT solutions (V2X connected roadway) while driving measurable improvements like infrastructure simplification and DynamoDB cost/performance tuning. He combines hands-on coding (Node, Java, Go, React, GraphQL) with a collaborative, mentorship-first leadership style and a penchant for whiteboarding and lunch-and-learns to spread knowledge. Based in Ann Arbor with a BBA in Computer Information Systems from Western Michigan University, he also experiments with generative AI agents to automate content workflows, reflecting a curiosity for practical AI applications beyond core infra work.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pinckney Community High SchoolBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Italy Study Abroad, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Italy Study Abroad at CIMBAMACRAO Liberal Arts General Education, MACRAO Liberal Arts General Education at Washtenaw Community CollegeBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computer Information Systems Minors: Marketing Business Analytics General Business, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computer Information Systems Minors: Marketing Business Analytics General Business at Western Michigan University
English, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
amazon10
kubernetes-service10
aws10
distro9
kubernetes-cluster9
kubernetes-deployment9
k8s9
amazon-eks9
vmware9
docker9
css9
chrome9
nodejs9
elastic9
html8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kevinsalerno/eks-distro
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters.
Contributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 months
securekubernetes-serviceamazon-ekskubernetes-deploymentclusters
kevinsalerno/mongord
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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