Nate Kennison
Director Of Deployment at Hivelocity
Spring Hill, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorNate Kennison is a hands-on infrastructure and deployment leader with over 18 years in hosting and 10+ years in progressive engineering and management roles at Hivelocity. He currently serves as Director of Deployment, having risen through hands-on positions from NOC technician to DevOps and automation engineer, overseeing the provisioning and deployment of tens of thousands of servers. Nate specializes in automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python), bare-metal provisioning, and Kubernetes orchestration on unconventional platforms like Proxmox, and he has a track record of cutting deployment time from hours to minutes. He builds practical tooling—custom scripts, web scrapers, and apps for BGP and bandwidth management—that bridge operations, billing, and monitoring workflows. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational pain points into reliable, repeatable systems and to scale processes across global infrastructure. Based in Spring Hill, Florida, he combines deep systems engineering with strategic leadership to keep high-volume hosting fleets efficient and auditable.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
mirror10
almalinux10
winpe7
homekit3
homebridge3
image-generator3
foreman3
windows2
siri1
libfdk-aac1
home-automation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
detriment/WIMan
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
WIMan is a Windows Image Generator for The Foreman. It creates both the WinPE file as well as the Windows images with a zero-hassle approach
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
windowszeroapproachimage-generatorwinpe
detriment/mirrors
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
The AlmaLinux project mirrors configuration and tools.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
mirrorsconfigurationalmalinux
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