Kyle Burckhard is a Senior Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading engineering at Kickstarter. He rose through hands-on roles from operations and DevOps to staff and management, blending deep systems knowledge with team leadership to improve reliability and deployment automation. Skilled in Ruby, cloud scaling, and process automation, he has a history of turning data-heavy workflows into efficient, auditable pipelines. Based in Washington, he combines pragmatic engineering with a collaborative mindset鈥攐ften described on GitHub as someone who "makes things with a cloudy hammer"鈥攁nd prefers to focus on connecting with colleagues rather than seeking new opportunities. Colleagues value his steady stewardship of platform health and his knack for translating operational complexity into repeatable practices.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby Programming Certificate, Ruby Programming Certificate at University of Washington
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Kyle Burckhard - Senior Engineering Manager at Kickstarter