Kevin Whittaker
Data Protection Architect
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Whittaker is a seasoned Data Protection Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise backup and recovery solutions. He has deep expertise in Veritas NetBackup (including FLEX appliances and Vault), Veeam, Cohesity, Data Domain, and large-scale tape systems, and has led complex migrations, upgrades, and ransomware-hardening projects for major customers. Kevin combines systems architecture chops with practical storage and UNIX administration—having managed multi-domain NetBackup estates, deduplication clusters, and disaster recovery programs across telecom and cloud environments. He is known for translating high-level requirements into operational runbooks and knowledge transfers, consistently reducing risk and uptime exposure. Based in Florida, he balances technical leadership with mentoring and vendor negotiations, often acting as the go-to SME during audits and incident response. A pragmatic problem solver, he frequently surfaces root causes that others miss, turning messy production environments into well-documented, resilient platforms.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems at University of South FloridaAssociate of Arts General, Associate of Arts General at State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kevinlwhittaker/intProg_Lab2
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 28 days
kevinlwhittaker/kevinlwhittaker.github.io
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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