Kyle Snavely
Principal Engineer at EDB
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Snavely is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native services, currently focused on database migration solutions at EDB. He brings deep full-stack expertise—from infrastructure, ops, and Kubernetes operators to user APIs and web applications—and has led cross-functional teams and high-severity incident responses at IBM Cloudant. Kyle blends software engineering with hands-on systems work (Chef, iptables, x509, monitoring stacks) and capacity planning for large IaaS deployments, enabling teams to ship resilient, compliant systems at scale. His background in experimental nuclear physics (M.S. work with the Majorana collaboration) informs a methodical approach to instrumentation, data analysis, and rigorous operational tooling. He frequently translates complex compliance and regional deployment constraints into automated, production-ready solutions and enjoys continuously expanding his toolset across languages and infrastructure domains.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at The University of New HampshireMaster of Science (M.S.) Physics, Master of Science (M.S.) Physics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (74)
edb10
postgresql10
python10
http10
nosql-database10
network-server10
ssh10
foundationdb10
couchdb10
transactional10
javascript10
big-data10
api10
ansible10
database10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ksnavely/ansible-repo
Jan 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
dockerweb-servicesmain-repo
ksnavely/website
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:30 PRs, 196 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 4 months
pythonflaskbackedblog-applicationmongodb
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