Kimberly Cottrell
Lorton, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKimberly Cottrell is a senior software and platform engineer with over a decade of experience building production web platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments for high-traffic environments. Now freelancing from Lorton, VA, she’s founding Kanary Boards, an AI-native Kanban-focused project management tool built with Deno, Docker, React, Astro, and TailwindCSS. Her background spans developer experience, migrations (Microsoft 365→Google Workspace), and infrastructure work such as migrating message queues to CloudAMQP and secrets to AWS Secrets Manager using Terraform. She’s known for creating reproducible Dockerized local environments that shrink onboarding friction and mirror production, and for pragmatic application of AI to improve engineering workflows. Colleagues rely on her to translate operational pain points into reliable automation and clearer deployment practices.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityReynolds Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
container10
docker10
docker-image10
wordpress10
docker-compose10
golang10
orchestration10
deno9
javascript9
laravel9
typescript9
pantheon9
drupal9
dockerfile9
go9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kimdcottrell/techlab
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
kimdcottrell/foundation-six-pack
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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