Phil Kates
Principal SRE at NVIDIA
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Kates is a Principal SRE with 17 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, resilient systems across startups and enterprise firms. He has led platform and SRE organizations at NVIDIA, Carta, Goldman Sachs, and Cruise, managing petabyte-scale storage, Kubernetes fleets, observability, and compliance programs like SOC2. Known for pragmatic tradeoffs, he combines technical depth in infrastructure automation (Python/Go), datacenter migrations, and release optimization with a track record of reducing toil and streamlining incident and deployment processes. Phil excels at scaling teams and processes under regulatory constraints—having stood up CartaX’s separate infrastructure and compliance practices—and at translating business needs into auditable, reliable systems. Based in Charleston, SC, he favors practical engineering that balances long-term resilience with shipping velocity and measurable operational improvements.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at Indian River State College
Github Skills (200)
jenkins-api-plugin10
reverse-proxy10
python10
marathon10
proxy10
zookeeper10
terraform10
consul10
automation10
jenkins-plugin10
home-assistant10
glusterfs10
letsencrypt10
mqtt10
golang10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
philk/home-assistant
May 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:54 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 11 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
philk/node-newrelicapi
Feb 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:25 commits in 5 months
apinewrelicapi-wrappernodejswrapper
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