Kyle Wenholz
Engineering at Fay
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Wenholz is a staff software developer and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable systems, leading teams, and driving DevOps, security, and compliance programs. He has a strong track record delivering high-impact outcomes—tripling engineering headcount, managing $300k/month cloud spend, and implementing continuous deployment pipelines that tripled developer velocity. Kyle has led end-to-end SOC2 programs to clean audits in weeks, executed zero-downtime migrations handling thousands of QPS across AWS, PostgreSQL, and Python/Go stacks, and introduced AI-assisted developer tooling that nearly doubled PR volume. He blends hands-on infrastructure expertise (including meaningful contributions to GoogleCloudPlatform deployment manager samples) with strategic leadership in cost optimization, incident response, and product integrations. Based in Tacoma, WA, he also brings founder-level product and growth instincts from launching and iterating startup experiments using LLMs and modern web stacks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs operational rigor with rapid delivery.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science Mathematics at University of Puget Sound
Github Skills (9)
gcp10
manager10
infrastructure-as-code10
deployer10
google-cloud-build9
cloud-sql9
api8
apim8
python8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/deploymentmanager-samples
Apr 2016 - Dec 2017
Deployment Manager samples and templates.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:26 commits, 25 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed significantly to the Deployment Manager samples, primarily focusing on updating and adding examples for Google Cloud Platform services. Their work involved migrating templates to use `serviceregistry.v1alpha`, adding a genuine GCP internal load balancer example, and including an access control example. Furthermore, the user added a Cloud SQL sample and a Cloud Build sample, showcasing their understanding of various GCP services.
deploymentdeployment-managerdockergoogle-cloudiaas
krwenholz/krwenholz.github.io
Jul 2012 - Sep 2022
Contributions:241 commits, 103 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 4 months
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