Kyle Avants
Senior Solutions Engineer at Percona
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolKyle Avants is a Senior Solutions Engineer with nine years of experience building and integrating web and cloud systems across AWS, Azure, Linux, and containerized environments. He blends full-stack competency in MERN/LAMP/Java and Python with hands-on DevOps and testing expertise (Docker, Jenkins, Selenium, Jest) to deliver resilient modernization efforts and automation that reduce manual QA overhead. At Percona he progressed from Solutions Engineer to Senior Solutions Engineer after driving customer-facing integrations and technical enablement; prior roles include leading modernization and ELK-based observability work for financial systems. A former research assistant with a background in applied psychology, he brings both analytical rigor and strong user-focused communication to cross-team projects. Outside work he trains like a boxer and cares for foster pets—signals of his discipline and empathy that show up in how he mentors and documents processes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major: Applied Psychology; Minor: Asian American Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major: Applied Psychology; Minor: Asian American Studies at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Japanese, Latin, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
kavants/overthewire
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
depaulcdm/hw4-kavants
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 day
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