Kevin Choi

San Francisco, CA  ·  kevin@kchoi.co

DevOps & SRE with 10+ years building and scaling cloud infrastructure. I specialize in Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD automation — helping engineering teams ship faster and sleep better.

Founding DevOps Engineer
DevAI

First DevOps hire at an AI infrastructure startup. Own the entire platform — GitOps with FluxCD, Kubernetes on AKS, Terraform IaC, EFK logging, and GitHub Actions pipelines serving Fortune 500 clients in healthcare and logistics.

Mar 2025 — Present
Senior DevOps Engineer
Prosper Marketplace

Led platform modernization at scale — migrated 1,000+ services from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, moved 3,000+ microservices to hybrid Rancher/GKE clusters, and built DevOps CLI tooling used daily across engineering. Drove GCP adoption and company-wide IaC practices.

Sep 2019 — Aug 2024
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
First Republic Bank

Maintained enterprise infrastructure availability in a high-compliance banking environment. Managed network configurations, automated operations via Rundeck and Control-M, and coordinated cross-team incident response.

Aug 2018 — Jan 2019
Senior Information Services Advisor
Halcyon Financial Technology

Architected and delivered hybrid and cloud-native infrastructure solutions for financial services clients from the ground up.

Apr 2016 — Aug 2018
Director of IT & Operations
FixSwift IT Solutions

Grew the company, doubled revenue year-over-year, and led a team of 12 — from technical strategy to client delivery.

Dec 2013 — Apr 2016
Senior System Administrator
Cisco Systems

Maintained reliability across 60+ enterprise servers in a large-scale data center environment.

Sep 2010 — Oct 2012

Cloud

GCP AWS Azure

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm Helmfile FluxCD Rancher

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Jenkins

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Ansible Vault

Observability

Grafana Prometheus EFK Stack New Relic Datadog Splunk

Networking

Cloudflare F5 Nginx Cisco Palo Alto Fortigate

Languages

Python Bash
San Jose State University
B.A. Economics
UC Berkeley Extension
Coding Boot Camp — 2019  ·  Full-stack web development
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Splunk Fundamentals
Cisco Meraki Network Associate
Google Cloud Platform — Coursera
Core Infrastructure · Foundation · Core Services · Python Crash Course