Kevin Schneider
Lead Software Engineer at Target
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Schneider is a Lead Software Engineer and SRE specialist with 10+ years of experience building large-scale telemetry, monitoring, and observability platforms for enterprise environments. At Target he led the design and rollout of OpenTelemetry-based tracing and metrics at scale, onboarding over 5,000 applications and delivering auto-instrumentation, sampled tracing, and auto-generated architecture diagrams. His background in performance engineering (from IBM) and hands-on SRE work gives him deep expertise in root-cause analysis using profiles, thread/heap dumps, and synthetic monitoring across polyglot microservices. Kevin focuses on reliability, scalability, and usability, and prefers infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD-driven delivery for resilient stateful systems processing millions of events per second. Based in the Twin Cities, he pairs strong academic fundamentals (CS, 3.99 GPA) with practical production experience in both retail and datacenter/cloud operations.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (84)
timeseries-database10
dashboard10
go-api10
grafana10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
xpath10
influxdb10
monitoring10
golang10
data-visualization10
rust10
database10
json10
mysql10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kjschnei001/chef-influxdb
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
A cookbook for InfluxDB, a time-series database (influxdb.org)
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
time-series-databasecookbookseries-databaseinfluxdb-databasetimeseries-database
kjschnei001/jaeger
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 22 days
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