Kurtis Mullins
Principal Engineer & Founder at Digital Roots LLC
Gardiner, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolKurtis Mullins is a principal engineer and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and backend services for startups and SaaS companies. He has led platform and release engineering across bare-metal Kubernetes fleets, improved core services like DNS and log aggregation, and driven performance and security work on the Quay container registry. Comfortable in both high-level architecture and gritty deployment details, Kurtis has a track record of solving growth-induced pain points from payment logic to large-scale CI/CD and observability. His open-source contributions emphasize security, robust data handling, and schema migration fixes for production container registries. Based in Maine, he balances pragmatic engineering with exploratory tinkering—often hacking on side projects with no fixed end goal—which fuels creative, low-friction solutions in production.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at Wright State UniversityGeneral Electives, General Electives at Sinclair Community College
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Github Skills (18)
python10
security10
mysql9
django-views9
pytest8
ldap8
base648
container7
dockers7
oci-distribution7
docker7
iframe6
nginx6
schema-org6
microdata6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
quay/quay
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Build, Store, and Distribute your Applications and Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 7 commits, 101 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kurtis primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Quay repository, focusing on security improvements, token management, and email handling. Their work included hiding sensitive data in logs, implementing Python3 string usage, and adding debug logging for sent emails. Furthermore, the user addressed schema migration issues related to MySQL and SSL, ensuring database integrity and compatibility. These contributions highlight a focus on security, data handling, and system stability.
containersoci-distributiondockerkubernetesdistribute
kurtismullins/quay
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Build, Store, and Distribute your Applications and Containers
Contributions:4 PRs, 214 pushes, 97 branches in 1 year
containersdistributekubernetesdocker
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