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
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.