Kirk Bater
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
New York, United States
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Top SchoolKirk Bater is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer and technical lead based in New York with 12 years of experience designing and operating reliable cloud-native systems at scale. At Red Hat he bridges business, product, and engineering to set SRE strategy, prioritize roadmaps, and lead distributed teams across North America and Europe. His background spans production engineering, senior software roles at GE Digital, and early web development—giving him a rare blend of hands-on coding, cloud architecture, and operational leadership. A former Marine Corps maintenance and training chief, he brings disciplined process, mission-focus, and people leadership to high-pressure incidents and complex delivery timelines. Outside work he stays competitive as a triathlete and volunteers organizing local tech meetups, reflecting a drive to learn by doing and foster community.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Information Technology, Bachelor's of Science Information Technology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Regents with Honors Business Concentration, Advanced Regents with Honors Business Concentration at Caledonia-Mumford Central SchoolCertificate of Completion Graphic Arts, Certificate of Completion Graphic Arts at Genesee Valley BOCES
English, php
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Github Skills (185)
postgresql10
jsonb10
terraform10
operator10
podman10
javascript10
linux10
laravel10
artifacts10
axios-adapter10
sql10
cli10
kubernetes10
sqlite10
redhat10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/ocm-container
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Containerized environment for accessing OpenShift v4 clusters, packing necessary tools/scripts
Contributions:2 releases, 59 reviews, 46 commits in 1 year 11 months
openshift-v4
iamkirkbater/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 1 month
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