| Location: Central Maine Remote: Yes (17+ years fully remote) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, CI/CD. Some Go and Rust experience. Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/kurtismullins Website: https://www.kurtismullins.com Email: kurtis@growdigitalroots.com GitHub: https://github.com/kurtismullins Freelance backend and infrastructure engineer. 18 years across startups, SaaS, enterprise, non-profit, and a game studio. Available for project-based or part-time work (~20 hrs/week). Highlights: - Equinix Metal: Platform engineering across 50+ global bare-metal Kubernetes clusters — drove log vendor migration and rollout of internal DNS recursors fleet-wide - Red Hat: Senior dev on Quay.io (~1B requests/month), led Python 2→3 migration, drove Kubernetes operator from prototype to shipping product - Clockwork Labs: Owned infrastructure for SpacetimeDB and supported BitCraft playtests — multiplayer game backend built on WASM + database - The Water Institute (FloodID): Owned infra for hurricane flood prediction — converted AWS from ClickOps to declarative Terraform, HPC simulations with post-processing in Kubernetes - Rackspace: Maintained internal tooling across 10-15 applications including greenfield coordination tooling for a large-scale datacenter consolidation - Cox Media Group: Maintained Django CMS serving 50+ newspapers/radio stations/TV channels, led migration from on-premise to AWS Backend development, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, cloud migrations, internal tooling. |