Kurt Bales
Senior Director, SaaS Production Engineering at Oracle
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Bales is a senior production engineering leader based in San Francisco with over two decades of experience specializing in network engineering, reliability, and resiliency for large-scale SaaS and infrastructure platforms. Currently Senior Director of SaaS Production Engineering at Oracle, he drives SRE adoption and embeds reliability-first architecture across evolving cloud products. His background spans roles leading NetOps, NRE and data center networking at Twitter and technical product leadership at Brocade and Juniper, giving him a rare combination of hands-on network protocol knowledge and strategic product-management experience. Kurt has repeatedly translated field automation needs into product roadmaps and training programs, and he often champions “workflow-first” automation and zero-touch provisioning to accelerate operational scale. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, cross-functional solutions that balance architectural rigor with deployable engineering practices.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
St Patrick's Marist College, Dundas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
junos-automation9
napalm8
pyez8
netconf7
python7
netmiko7
automation5
pure-python2
dhcp1
proxy1
tftp1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JNPRAutomate/pyCliConf
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
JNPRAutomate/duct-tape
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 10 months
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