Sam Kenkel
Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Apple
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSam Kenkel is a Site Reliability Engineering manager based in Austin with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure across tech leaders including Apple and Google. He blends deep SRE and DevOps expertise with AI/ML platform work (Vertex AI) and a strong networking/storage background honed early in media systems at Avid. Sam focuses on reliability, disaster recovery, and operational architecture, routinely translating complex production needs into practical, automated solutions. He has moved from technical subject-matter roles to people leadership while retaining a practitioner’s mindset—comfortable in incident response, platform design, and cloud migrations. Sam’s unusual combination of media storage/disaster-recovery experience and modern ML platform SRE work gives him a pragmatic edge when designing systems that must be both performant and recoverable.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Film Production, Film Production at University of Southern CaliforniaData Science, Data Science at General AssemblyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (7)
asynchronous7
scylla6
machine-learning2
artificial-intelligence2
reinforcement-learning2
deep-learning2
deep-reinforcement-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Skenkel/async-werewolf
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Site for asynchronous games of werewolf
Contributions:38 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 8 months
werewolfasynchronousgames
Skenkel/skenkel.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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