Keeping systems running since 1984.

I am Kevin P. Inscoe: a site reliability, platform, cloud and Linux engineer, software developer, and Unix graybeard. I have worked in computer and hardware support for more than 40 continuous years, starting professionally in 1984.

Today I build and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure, run workloads on Kubernetes, and write tooling in Go, Python and Bash. Away from the keyboard I am a radio and electronics enthusiast, a train buff, a writer, a husband and father, and a compassionate servant of Christ.

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At a glance

Four decades of keeping systems running

In computer and hardware support: Since 1984
Running this web site: Since 1995
Preferred automation languages: Go · Python · Bash
Cloud platforms: AWS · Azure · EKS

Capabilities

Skills and technology

Cloud and infrastructure as code

Designing, provisioning and migrating cloud infrastructure — VPCs, compute, Kubernetes, storage and identity — through reviewed pull requests rather than console clicks.

AWS
Azure
EKS
Terraform
OpenTofu
Terragrunt
Pulumi
Packer

Reliability and operations

Keeping production healthy with measurable monitoring, alerts that reach the right people, tested recovery, and careful, repeatable change.

Datadog
PagerDuty
ELK
NATS JetStream
Backup and recovery
CI/CD

Software and automation

Thirty-five years of shell scripting and three decades of Perl, now mostly Go and Python: command-line tools, migration tooling and integrations that make infrastructure work safer.

Go
Python
Bash
Perl
PHP
SaltStack

Linux and Unix systems

From DEC VAX/VMS in the 1980s through Solaris zones to today’s Linux fleets: web and mail servers, DNS, storage, and the plumbing everything else rests on.

Linux
Gentoo
Fedora
Solaris
OpenVMS
NGINX
Postfix
BIND

Career

Selected experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
ACS Technologies · Remote
2020—Present
Platform and site reliability engineering on a bi-weekly scrum team, deploying and provisioning monolithic and microservice applications for R&D engineering.
- Cloud orchestration, provisioning and monitoring on AWS and Azure, with Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi and custom Go tooling.
- Moving microservices from EC2 to Kubernetes on EKS with Helm.
- Data migrations across PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, OpenSearch and Couchbase.
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity and CodeDeploy; clustered NATS and JetStream; Datadog monitoring.
- AWS
- Azure
- EKS
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Go
- Helm
- Datadog
Staff Engineer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2002—2020
Site reliability engineer deploying AWS infrastructure for engineering teams.
- Migrated more than seventy applications from traditional infrastructure into AWS, with shared Terraform modules and Atlantis pull-request workflows.
- Ran multiple nine-node MarkLogic clusters and the Akamai CDN estate.
- Built cost, tagging-compliance and log-shipping tools in Python and Lambda, cutting monthly spend by $1,300 a month in a single year.
- Ran DNS, SMTP gateways, configuration management and large Subversion, CVS and Git repositories, and taught Git best practice.
- AWS
- Terraform
- Python
- MarkLogic
- Akamai
- SaltStack
- Datadog
- PagerDuty