Senior Platform and Infrastructure Engineer

Kurtis Mullins is a Backend, platform, and infra engineer with 17 years of experience across startups, SaaS, enterprise, non-profit, and a game studio. Highlights include platform engineering across 50+ global bare-metal Kubernetes clusters at Equinix Metal, leading Python 2->3 migration and Kubernetes operator development at Red Hat (Quay.io), owning infrastructure for SpacetimeDB at Clockwork Labs, converting AWS to declarative Terraform for hurricane flood prediction at The Water Institute, maintaining internal tooling at Rackspace, and leading Django CMS migration from on-premise to AWS at Cox Media Group. Mostly focused on backend development, internal tools, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure. Comfortable across the full stack including the underlying platform. Recently interested in Rust and currently using it on side projects (Axum, SQLx, Clap, Reqwest, Bevy). Available for short-term or part-time engagements, looking to augment teams or own parts of the stack to build long-term relationships.