Tony Kerz
Principal Software Engineer at Aetna
Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolTony Kerz is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years of cloud-native, dev-sec-ops and full‑stack experience who has spent a large portion of his career architecting multi-tenant platforms and internal developer tooling at Aetna. He designs and implements infrastructure-as-code patterns and reusable Terraform/Jenkins frameworks across AWS and GCP, translating complex IAM, networking and Kubernetes concerns into repeatable, secure deployments. Tony combines front-end craftsmanship (React/Redux/Material‑UI) and backend services (Node.js, Python microservices) to enable self-service developer platforms and data-science workflows, and has modernized CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Argo CD and Backstage. He brings deep SRE discipline—tuning GKE/EKS, autoscaling, POD disruption budgets and workload identity federation—while integrating dev-sec tooling like Checkmarx, Twistlock and Vault. Notably, he repeatedly turns prototypes into production ecosystems, unifying heterogeneous cloud models and CI flows into reusable toolchains that reduce friction for developer teams. Based in Rocky Hill, CT, he blends decades of enterprise systems experience with a continual appetite for learning and practical innovation.
12 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science Computer Science, Master's of Science Computer Science at Rensselaer at WorkBachelor's of Science Mathematics/Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Mathematics/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
material-ui10
http-client10
language-design10
serve10
schema10
ecosystem10
hashicorp10
api10
vault10
margin10
json10
inject10
openid-connect10
babel-eslint10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
the-watchmen/node-tymer
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 32 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 7 months
the-watchmen/node-web-helpr
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 28 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years
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