Summary
Kevin Zelaya is a DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on enterprise operations experience, currently architecting production Kubernetes infrastructure for laboratory systems and delivering measurable cost savings. He has operated as a sole engineer on greenfield projects, replacing legacy systems with containerized stacks (PostgreSQL, persistent storage, automated backups) and producing runbooks and disaster recovery plans. At Pennymac he supported 4,000+ users and 500+ Linux servers, owned Jenkins pipelines for 20+ teams, and acted as a first responder for high-pressure incidents, contributing to significant cloud cost optimizations. Skilled in Terraform, AWS, GitOps, and container security, he pairs infrastructure-as-code discipline with practical incident troubleshooting and backup/DR expertise. Outside work he maintains self-hosted infrastructure and automation dotfiles, reflecting a preference for ownership and reproducible systems. Based in Los Angeles, he’s open to contract or full-time roles where he can architect resilient, automated production systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
Associate of Science - AS Mathematics, Associate of Science - AS Mathematics at College of the Canyons