About

Kevin Cureton is a software/systems architect with extensive experience in software design and implementation, client/server and distributed architectures, large-scale data management systems, DevOps and infrastructure management, Amazon Web Services, systems administration, and iPhone development. He is currently working as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Wish, where he is responsible for automation of manually managed systems. He has refactored the single, massive Terraform state into per service, per deployment environment states, dramatically reducing risk for infrastructure changes. He is also mentoring engineers interested in improving coding skills. Kevin has worked with top tech companies like Netflix and Facebook in the past. He was a Senior DevOps Engineer at Netflix, where he was a member of the Studio Infrastructure team responsible for the development of a virtual workstation platform, Netflix Workstations, that runs on AWS. He worked as a Production Engineer for Applied Machine Learning at Facebook, where he was a lead in a cross-functional group focused on reliability, performance, and scaling issues for the machine learning training platform. Kevin has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a highly skilled professional with 18.37 years of relevant experience. He is driven by a powerful curiosity, which leads him to seek and solve complex problems. He believes in delivering a thorough and well-crafted product. He finds satisfaction in new development, refactoring existing systems, or putting a renegade infrastructure back in its place. He is proficient in languages like C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, Python, and Javascript, and is always up for picking up a new language. He has a strong tech stack that includes SRE, infra, Objective-c, DevOps, Terraform, AWS, test, Javascript, Web, Senior Software Engineer, Python, and ML.