Location: Central Maine

Remote: Yes (17+ years fully remote)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/kurtismullins

Website: https://www.kurtismullins.com

Email: kurtis@growdigitalroots.com

GitHub: https://github.com/kurtismullins

Backend, platform, and infra engineer — 17 years across startups, SaaS, enterprise, non-profit, and a game studio.

Highlights:

- Equinix Metal: Platform engineering across 50+ global bare-metal Kubernetes clusters — drove log vendor migration and rollout of internal DNS recursors (pdns-recursor) 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 and dashboards across 10-15 applications — including greenfield coordination tooling used for a large-scale datacenter consolidation project

- Cox Media Group: Maintained Django CMS serving 50+ newspapers/radio stations/TV channels, led migration from on-premise to AWS

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 again and currently using it at a high-level (Axum, SQLx, Clap, Reqwest, Bevy) on side projects.

Available for short-term or part-time engagements. Happy to augment a team or own a piece of the stack. Looking to build long-term relationships through good work.