Ross Kirkpatrick
Senior II Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Hermitage, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Kirkpatrick is a Senior II Software Engineer with six years of cloud-native and multi-platform experience, currently building Akamai’s LKE Enterprise managed Kubernetes service. He combines a DevSecOps mindset with deep upstream Kubernetes expertise—particularly around Windows containerization—and helped deliver the first containerd-based Windows RKE2 distribution and Rancher provisioning for RKE2 Windows clusters. Ross has led FedRAMP and FIPS compliance efforts, architected Terraform IaC for GovCloud, and built solutions for air-gapped, multi-arch deployments across AWS, Azure, IBM Z, and arm64. A pragmatic engineer and open-source advocate, he routinely bridges product, support, and upstream communities to turn complex compliance and platform requirements into production-ready systems. Based in Western Pennsylvania, he brings a track record of shrinking delivery timelines through automation and shipping first-to-market platform features.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Harford Community College
English
Github Skills (89)
container-management10
rancher10
flannel10
orchestration10
k8s10
docker-build10
subnet10
proxmox10
ccm10
golang10
linode10
kubernetes10
cattle10
go10
network10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rosskirkpat/revvy
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
rosskirkpat/terraform-modules
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
terraform for standing up rancher downstream mixed cluster using aws instances
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
awsrancherterraform
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