Kim Schlesinger
Senior Learning Experience Designer at LinkedIn
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Schlesinger is a Senior Learning Experience Designer and seasoned tech educator with 11 years of experience building curriculum and developer-facing content around Kubernetes and cloud-native application development. Previously a Kubernetes Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean and a LinkedIn Learning instructor of four Kubernetes courses, Kim blends hands-on Go/DevOps contributions—such as work on Fairwinds' Polaris validation tool—with curriculum strategy and instructional design. She has led technical training programs for schools and AmeriCorps initiatives, partnered with Indigenous communities to tailor CS and AI education, and now directs curriculum at Contentful after a recent stint as Director of Curriculum at Indigitize. Based in Denver, she pairs classroom and production experience to make complex distributed systems approachable, with a knack for turning operational tooling insights into practical learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full-Stack Immersive Certificate Computer Software Engineering, Full-Stack Immersive Certificate Computer Software Engineering at Galvanize IncBachelor's Degree Music Education, Bachelor's Degree Music Education at University of Northern ColoradoPolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Whitman CollegeMaster's Degree Special Education and Teaching, Master's Degree Special Education and Teaching at Cardinal Stritch University
Github Skills (9)
audit10
kubernetes10
go10
auditing10
kubernetes-pods10
guideline9
cluster-computing8
clustering8
cicd7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FairwindsOps/polaris
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Validation of best practices in your Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kim contributed to the Polaris project by implementing and modifying features related to the audit functionality. This includes adding a flag to set an exit code based on audit results, and modifying existing configurations. The user also made test updates and refactored code to improve the overall functionality of the project. The user worked primarily on the main application and its configuration, which is written in Go.
fairwinds-officialopavalidationauditclusters
developdenver/2018-dvlpdnvr-talks
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Slide decks and resources from the talks at Develop Denver 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
decksdenverslide
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