Kyle Risse
Senior Manager, DevOps at Xolv Technology Solutions, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Risse is a Senior Manager of DevOps with two decades of hands-on experience building, operating, and leading production infrastructure across healthcare, fintech, and high-growth startups. He has driven infrastructure automation and containerization efforts that supported rapid scale and acquisition outcomes, and has deep practical expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, NixOS, Go, Ansible, and Python. Known for stabilizing high-volume distributed and event-driven systems, he also excels at cost optimization, observability, and zero-downtime migrations. A committed mentor and cross-team collaborator, Kyle has grown and led DevOps teams, run study groups, and improved operational practices in regulated environments. Outside work he contributes to the Southern California Linux Expo core tech team and balances technical curiosity with outdoor adventure and grassroots soccer refereeing—hinting at a blend of operational rigor and appetite for unconventional challenges.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS IT - Computer Network Systems, Associate of Science - AS IT - Computer Network Systems at ITT Technical InstituteSoftware Development, Software Development at Western Governors University
Github Skills (100)
tooling10
nix10
digital-signage10
ord10
linux10
scale10
dhall10
openwrt10
juniper10
configurations10
wifi10
nixos9
ansible9
python9
declarative9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kylerisse/nixcfg
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
NixOS configuration(s)
Contributions:187 PRs, 212 pushes, 204 branches in 2 years
nixnix-flakenix-overlaynixosnixos-configuration
kylerisse/dotfiles
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
dotfiles repo using chezmoi
Contributions:34 PRs, 30 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 10 months
chezmoifish-shell
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