Principal Platform Engineer

Kurtis Mullins has approximately 18 years of experience spanning backend development, DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering. He has worked at companies like Red Hat (quay.io), Rackspace, and Equinix Metal/Packet. He is business-aware, having gone through NSF's I-Corps startup program. Currently, he is focused on freelance and solo projects, seeking project-based or fractional engagements, and is not interested in staff augmentation or pager duty. He excels in both architecture/systems design and hands-on implementation, aiming to build long-term relationships. While proficient in Go and learning Rust, his deepest expertise lies in Python. He is interested in projects involving low-level systems programming, IoT (homestead-related), and game development.