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Kevin Shen

@kevinshen

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DevOps engineer specializing in scalable, secure AWS infrastructure, IaC, and reliability engineering.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role focused on scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering where I can lead IaC, CI/CD automation, and mentor teams while improving uptime and security.

I am a DevOps engineer with 11+ years designing and scaling cloud infrastructure for mission-critical systems, focused on reliability and security.

I have built resilient AWS environments—including AWS GovCloud—automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and implemented infrastructure-as-code with Terraform to achieve reproducible environments and rapid deployments.

My work includes scaling PostgreSQL clusters, migrating services to Kubernetes and ECS, developing Go-based tooling, and establishing monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana to dramatically reduce incident detection and MTTR.

I prioritize security hardening, cost optimization, and mentoring teams, with documented runbooks and infrastructure standards adopted across multiple jurisdictions and organizations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Engineer

Current

VotingWorks

Feb 2023 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Orchestrated AWS GovCloud infrastructure for Go-based election systems across 50+ jurisdictions, implemented IaC and hardened security to FIPS 140-2 standards while reducing incident detection time by 85% and cutting setup time from 8 hours to 45 minutes via Go tooling.

AWS GovCloud Kubernetes Terraform Go GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana IAM System Hardening

Software Engineer

Stripe

Jun 2019 - Nov 2022 (3 years 5 months)

Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and led migrations to AWS ECS, improving deployment velocity by 60% and reducing provisioning time from 4 hours to 12 minutes while designing multi-region failover to ensure 99.99% availability.

Terraform AWS ECS OpenTelemetry Go Lambda gRPC RDS Observability

Software Engineer

Clever Inc.

Jul 2014 - Apr 2019 (4 years 9 months)

Migrated services to AWS and implemented CloudFront, RDS, and CloudFormation templates to improve reliability by 80% and reduce login latency from 1.2s to 300ms while securing FERPA-compliant infrastructure and cutting Elasticsearch costs by 45%.