Michael Kirlin
Senior Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kirlin is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications and managing secure, cost-efficient AWS infrastructures. He has driven migrations to Kubernetes, implemented GitOps and CI/CD pipelines, and reduced cloud spend through architectural changes and observability with Datadog. Comfortable in both development and incident response, he has led CSPM and security tooling rollouts, supported SOC2 audits, and worked closely with pentesters to remediate findings. A former teacher and Dev Bootcamp grad, he brings clear documentation and onboarding skills that improve team velocity. Now at Osmind after roles at AlphaSense, Tegus, and PayPal, he blends hands-on engineering with pragmatic security and developer-experience improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Dev BootcampMaster's degree Education, Master's degree Education at Creighton University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (49)
paypal8
aws8
packer8
testing7
terraform7
json-api7
payment7
automated-tests7
shell6
react6
golang6
api6
docker6
bash6
ruby6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
the-difference-engine/we-r-next-generation
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
WeRNextGeneration api
Contributions:21 PRs, 54 pushes, 29 branches in 2 months
djangoapipython
mkirlin/mkirlin.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
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