Mike Kazin
Senior Broadcast IT Engineer at QVC
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Kazin is a Senior Broadcast IT Engineer in Boston with 13 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient broadcast and live-show infrastructures. He blends broadcast production roots—editing, camera operation, and producing—with deep systems administration skills across VMware, Citrix, SCCM, Active Directory, Cisco, and HP OneView to keep high-stakes live operations running smoothly. At QVC he led daily live-show support, vulnerability mitigation, and enterprise patching while implementing Citrix Cloud MFA and re-building critical VM environments for audio systems. Mike is also an agnostic polyglot contributor on cloud-native projects like an API/AI gateway, where he focuses on DevOps, Helm/RBAC tweaks, and backend testing—showing he moves comfortably between production video and cloud-native engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic documentation, standard operating procedures, and rapid troubleshooting under broadcast deadlines.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
rbac10
env10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
helm10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
convoy10
unit-testing9
go9
microservices8
grpc8
cloud-native8
microservices-application8
serverless7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 19 reviews, 16 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the infrastructure and backend aspects of the API gateway. They focused on Helm updates, specifically disabling discovery and modifying RBAC rules. Additionally, the user worked on code generation and added unit tests related to the gloo-graphqlschema-mutator. Their contributions also included changes related to redirect actions within the proxy configuration, demonstrating a grasp of API gateway logic.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
mkazin/neo4j
Oct 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 years 5 months
graphgraphsgraphqlgraph-algorithms
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