Kevin Freeman
@kevinfreeman
Senior cloud infrastructure engineer driving high-availability, cost-efficient systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a senior cloud and infrastructure engineer with deep experience designing and operating highly available, multi-cloud platforms for fintech and enterprise customers. I have architected cross-cloud EKS/GKE deployments, led large-scale migrations, and built tooling to enable self-service infrastructure.
At Plaid I delivered 99.99%+ API uptime, drove a pets-to-cattle transformation with reusable Terraform modules across AWS, GCP and Azure, and reduced MTTR by 60% through monitoring and automated remediation. I also led a near-zero-downtime migration to multi-master TiDB and cut AWS spend by ~30% through optimization.
Previously, I engineered secure, compliant AWS foundations and large migrations at Accenture and built high-scale infrastructure and platform services at Amazon Web Services, improving availability, reducing costs, and accelerating developer productivity across hundreds of services.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
PLArchitected and maintained Plaid’s multi-AZ EKS/GKE infrastructure with cross-cloud failover, managing RDS/Cloud SQL and achieving 99.99%+ API uptime while reducing MTTR by 60% through automated monitoring and remediation.
PLLed pets-to-cattle transformation by creating reusable, security-hardened Terraform modules across AWS/GCP/Azure and migrated services to TiDB delivering 99.995% availability and near-zero downtime for critical workloads.
ACEngineered a secure, compliant AWS foundation with Control Tower and Terraform, migrated 200+ applications with zero downtime and delivered 20 production systems in under 5 months, cutting maintenance costs and accelerating cloud adoption 50%.
ASDevOps Engineer
Amazon Web Services
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020 (3 years 7 months)
Developed reusable AWS infrastructure blueprints and optimized Nitro-based EC2 virtualization, improving performance and reducing overhead ~30% while scaling Lambda and Kinesis systems to support trillions of monthly events.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
GUGeorgia State University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with coursework and projects supporting software engineering and cloud technologies.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Amazon Connect
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
GitHub
GitLab
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
AWS CodePipeline
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Amazon Route 53
Gmail
Rollout
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Pulumi
Azure DevOps
Bazel
Fluentd
Grafana
Prometheus
Datadog
Falco
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Amazon Aurora
GuardRails
SQL
Amazon EventBridge
Kyverno
ArgoCD
TiDB
Bash
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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