Kirby Drumm
Solutions Engineer at Highnote
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirby Drumm is a seasoned Solutions Engineer with over 30 years of experience building and integrating complex technology products, from missile imagery algorithms to cellular test equipment and modern online payments. Comfortable across the entire customer journey, he excels at translating high-level architecture into practical implementations and leading cross-functional teams through discovery, design, and deployment. His recent roles in payments and cloud cost tooling show a blend of hands-on backend work—like managing release/versioning for the open-source Kubecost ecosystem—and people leadership as a director and manager. Based in Mountain View, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused approach and is most productive when contributing directly to an exciting product’s success.
5 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Lock Haven University of PennsylvaniaJapanese, Japanese at San Jose Learning Center
Github Skills (6)
release-management10
go10
kubernetes-pods9
version-control9
kubernetes9
cost-optimization8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opencost/opencost
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 17 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kirby's primary contribution is bumping the application's version number. The commits modify the `pkg/env/costmodelenv.go` file, specifically updating the `GetAppVersion` function to reflect the new version. These changes suggest a focus on the application's release process and version management. The user is likely responsible for versioning and preparing releases for the opencost project, as evidenced by the changes in version numbering.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
kirbsauce/docs
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Product and technical docs
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 comments in 1 month
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