Kurt Payne
Production Engineer at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Payne is a production engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in large-scale data infrastructure, currently improving reliability and capacity management for Apache Spark SQL at Meta's massive data warehouse. He combines deep operational know-how from roles at GoDaddy—where he launched an AWS-backed email platform for millions of users, built company-wide monitoring and Vault-based secret storage, and led managed WordPress tooling—with earlier full-stack and SaaS development experience. Comfortable across DevOps, capacity planning, and systems architecture, Kurt has repeatedly translated business requirements into resilient, cost-conscious platforms. Based in Redwood City, he pairs hands-on engineering with teaching and open collaboration instincts, evidenced by prior public WordPress contributions and internal training efforts.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Network Computing Spanish, BA Network Computing Spanish at Northern Michigan University
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Github Skills (38)
popularity9
kibana9
plugin9
visualizations9
elastic9
elasticsearch9
observability8
wordpress-block7
popular7
screen-scraping6
soap-client6
php6
file-upload6
soap6
wsdl6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wpmudev/p3-profiler
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
See which plugins are slowing down your site. This plugin creates a performance report for your site.
Contributions:29 commits in 11 months
performancereportplugin
kurtpayne/wordpress-plugin-analyzer
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:26 commits in 21 days
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