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Kyle Bailey

@kylebailey2

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I build secure, scalable cloud data platforms for fintech and real estate systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead technical strategy for secure, scalable cloud data platforms, mentor engineers, and partner across product, data science, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable business outcomes.

I've built enterprise-scale cloud data platforms for Blend Labs, Zillow Group, and Black Knight across fintech and real estate technology.

At Blend Labs, I migrated legacy EC2 pipelines to Kubernetes on AWS EKS, cutting deployment rollback incidents by 70%, and reduced cloud spend by 28% through autoscaling redesign and Kubernetes node rightsizing. I also designed event-driven Kafka and Python pipelines, multi-account AWS infrastructure, disaster recovery automation, and centralized observability.

At Zillow Group, I modernized high-traffic real estate systems through microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python tooling, Redis caching, and centralized logging. Earlier at Black Knight, I supported mortgage servicing platforms by automating deployments, stabilizing MySQL clusters, improving log aggregation, and supporting early AWS adoption.

I lead technical strategy through architecture reviews, engineering standards, stakeholder alignment, and mentorship for senior and principal engineers. My work focuses on secure data platform design, distributed systems, data governance, and reliable delivery practices.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Principal Data Engineer

BLEND LABS

Feb 2019 - Mar 2026 (7 years 1 month)

Led migration of legacy EC2 pipelines to Kubernetes on AWS EKS, cutting deployment rollback incidents by 70%. Architected multi-account AWS infrastructure with Terraform and IAM boundary policies, and designed event-driven data pipelines using Kafka and Python.

Lead Data Engineer

Zillow Group

Jun 2015 - Jan 2019 (3 years 7 months)

Managed AWS infrastructure for high-traffic real estate systems and built Python tooling for automated environment validation. Migrated monolithic apps to microservices using Docker and Kubernetes, and improved deployment reliability with Jenkins shared libraries.

AWS Python Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Redis Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana Terraform PostgreSQL Generative AI Lineage Databricks Unity Catalog

Data Engineer

Black Knight

Jul 2012 - May 2015 (2 years 10 months)

Supported Linux infrastructure and backend deployments for mortgage servicing platforms, ensuring high availability. Developed Python automation scripts to replace manual tasks and assisted early AWS adoption, managing hybrid environments.