Kevin Tindall
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKevin Tindall is an experienced software and reliability engineer with 11 years building cloud-native infrastructure, data pipelines, and backend services across companies like GoDaddy, Red Hat, and TEKsystems. He has strong Python and Go skills, with hands-on IaC, OpenStack, and SRE work that included zero-downtime platform migrations and diagnosing complex Linux networking on Open vSwitch. Kevin modernized applications and security controls—converting compliance rules into OPA Rego, upgrading Go ecosystems, and simplifying GCP tooling for AI research environments in regulated banking contexts. He also improved data engineering CI/CD and automation at Red Hat, turning ad-hoc scripts into testable, production-ready workflows that integrated Kafka, Eloqua, and Salesforce. An active open-source maintainer, he contributed backend and DevOps fixes to the widely used mcstatus Python library for Minecraft servers, including socket resilience and automated releases. Based in Berlin and learning German, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a collaborative, infrastructure-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Tennessee Technological University
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Github Skills (21)
python10
cd10
net10
networking10
cicd10
automation10
socket10
automations10
tcp-socket10
release-management9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cuda6
raspberry-pi6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Dinnerbone/mcstatus
May 2019 - Feb 2022
A Python class for checking the status of an enabled Minecraft server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 releases, 63 reviews, 116 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `mcstatus` Python library for checking Minecraft server status. Their contributions involved bug fixes, such as handling socket failures, and adding new features like enabling the TCP_NODELAY socket option. They also worked on infrastructure tasks by dropping Python 2 support, automating releases, and improving the CLI experience by addressing query timeouts.
minecraftpythonstatuscheckingminecraft-server
KageJittai/Cpp_Discord_Game
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
A game made by C++ Discord.
Contributions:21 PRs, 11 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
discorddiscord-ccppgame
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