Kirk Bater
Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Technical Engineering Lead 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
12 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 (200)
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json10
oracle-db10
openshift10
nodejs10
terragrunt10
hcl10
php10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/osd-cluster-ready
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
OSD cluster readiness detection
Contributions:3 reviews, 23 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
clusterosdreadinessosdv4
iamkirkbater/osd-cluster-ready-job
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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