Kurt Larsen
Sr. Database Engineer
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Larsen is a senior database engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building, tuning, and automating MySQL and PostgreSQL environments across on-prem and cloud platforms. He specializes in automation (Ansible), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Packer), and high-availability tooling like ProxySQL, Orchestrator and Percona XtraDB, and has led test-lab and migration efforts at companies such as DigitalOcean, Groupon and USA TODAY NETWORK. Kurt blends deep systems and networking roots with practical security and operational know-how, having modernized deployments, authored backup and provisioning scripts, and introduced Ansible where teams lacked automation. Comfortable across Linux/FreeBSD and cloud providers (AWS, GCP), he also writes Golang tooling to streamline DB administration and RDS operations. Based in Las Vegas, he’s driven by a “Automate Everything” ethos and a particular passion for MySQL performance and non-blocking schema change strategies.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Freeman High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
database-access10
mysql10
migration10
schema-migrations10
migration-tool10
random-data9
random-generation8
loader8
mariadb8
batch6
aws-sdk-go6
dummy-data6
wrapper4
database3
golang2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ChaosHour/ssh-audits
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
A method to run multiple commands against multiple servers
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 4 months
golangssh
ChaosHour/code-this
May 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:82 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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