Summary
Kevin Stange is a seasoned Linux systems engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and diagnosing production infrastructure for hosting and enterprise environments. He has led platform and systems teams, served as CTO at Steadfast Networks, and excels at automation, technical documentation, and operational engineering across UNIX/Linux and Windows stacks. Kevin blends deep systems-level curiosity with practical leadership—mentoring teams, evaluating new technologies, and shipping reliable tools and services at scale. A longtime open-source contributor and early Perl hacker who once feared Ruby, he brings an engineer’s instinct for connecting systems and a knack for clear, user-facing documentation. Based in Chicago, he returned to individual contributor work after mergers, continuing to focus on robust, maintainable platform operations.
19 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Harborfields High School
BS Computer Science; Minor: Digitally Mediated Communications, BS Computer Science; Minor: Digitally Mediated Communications at Clarkson University
English