Summary
Kyle Galbraith is a founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native products and teams, currently CEO of Depot where he accelerates Docker image builds and CI workflows. He combines hands-on platform engineering and DevOps expertise—backed by AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps certifications—with a track record of taking greenfield products from seed development to production in under six months. Kyle has led hiring and rapid onboarding programs that turned junior hires into productive contributors within their first week, and has driven cost, security, and performance improvements across SaaS platforms. His career spans full-stack development, devops, and QA roles at companies like Zapproved, Thorn, and Era Software, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on product delivery. A published author on hosting and securing static sites and an expat based in Montpellier, he brings a pragmatic “fail fast, learn faster” mindset and a bias for tangible customer value.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Portland State University
Associates of Applied Science Multimedia, Associates of Applied Science Multimedia at Portland Community College
French