Kyle Harper
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Kaseya
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Harper is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience delivering resilient, data-focused infrastructure and tooling from Las Vegas. With a twenty-year professional background in information systems and a Master's (4.0) in IT Administration and Management, he blends deep operational know-how with formal systems education. At Kaseya he drives SRE practices and reliability at scale, building on prior architecture experience at O'Reilly Auto Parts where he shaped enterprise systems. An active open-source contributor, he improved usability and robustness of the widely used lz4 compression tool by adding multi-file support and enhanced CLI behavior. Kyle is equally comfortable debugging low-level I/O and designing high-level system patterns, often surfacing practical usability fixes that improve operator workflows. He brings a pragmatic, data-centric approach to making complex distributed systems predictable and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, 4.0 at Dakota State University Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at Missouri State University
English, Spanish, sign languages (asl/pse)
Github Skills (14)
lz410
c1710
compression10
command-line-interface10
c1110
cli10
command-line10
fileio9
file-access9
file-handling9
file-processing9
algorithms8
algorithm8
implement8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lz4/lz4
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on enhancing the `lz4` compression tool by adding support for multiple input files and improving the command-line interface functionality. They implemented the `-m` switch, enabling the processing of multiple files, mirroring the behavior of other compression tools. Furthermore, the user added file continuation during compression/decompression, and introduced new functions such as `LZ4IO_decompressMultipleFilenames`. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the tool's usability and robustness.
compressioncompression-algorithmlz4c
KyleJHarper/tyche
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:223 commits, 180 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 9 months
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