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Hi, I am Anakin

Anakin Kinsey

Site Reliability Engineer

A Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of experience managing complex systems in AWS. I primarily use Go and Terraform to develop project components using Infrastructure as Code and Serverless methods.

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Xero

May 2019 - Dec 2023

Denver, CO

Cloud accounting for small to medium businesses

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Investigated and upgraded an unknown Go codebase to unblock a portfolio wide migration, the dependency was discovered late in the migration and had to be upgraded within just a few days to meet company timelines
  • Led the technical migration of an internal tool from inception to delivery to meet the timelines for a vendor transition, this included collaborating with dependent teams and mitigating risks via LaunchDarkly
  • Mentored fellow Engineers on Go best practices, allowing for more consistent/readable codebases
  • Facilitated SLO and Incident training for teams across the US/UK
  • Provided support via on call rotation using PagerDuty for SRE
  • Managed large scale incidents across multiple teams as the Incident Commander
Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2020 - Dec 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Architected a product to inform teams of required AWS Maintenance, providing reminders, due dates, and reports for managers
  • Developed and maintained an automated system to tag AWS resources using Serverless (Lambda, SQS, SNS), written in Go and Terraform
  • Created a frontend page to surface AWS infrastructure information for teams, written in Typescript using React
  • Created a service to search over past incidents to easily surface incident learnings
  • Created monitors, alerts, and dashboards for our Products using NewRelic and SumoLogic
  • Wrote Terraform modules to deploy resources across multiple AWS accounts
Site Reliability Intern

May 2019 - Aug 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Learned the tenants of Serverless computing while focusing on learning AWS
  • Developed a system to automatically renew AWS ACM certs

Coastal Carolina University.

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Conway, SC

A public university in Conway, South Carolina.

Computer Science Tutor

Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Tutor for the CS department tasked with assisting students in related coursework.
  • Honed my skills through tutoring in Java, operating systems, python, and Linux
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