18 Years of Experience in the SaaS + Web Apps -> Developer Tooling -> DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering worlds. Currently freelance developer. Open to projects and fractional work. My emphasis is on enjoying the summer with my kids, taking care of our homestead, and making time for my own projects so I'm explicitly not interested in full-time roles.
It would be super cool to get in with folks who are doing anything related to sensors, mesh networks, homestead-tangent projects, homelab things, DevOps for game devs, and so forth. It would definitely be a "learning on the job" scenario for anything outside my professional resume.
I have an LLC and we can work B2B or whatever your preference is... Just no staff augmentation roles, pretty please.
18 Years Web, SaaS, Full-Stack, Backend, and SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering.
Looking for freelance clients/projects and part-time opportunities.
Would love to work with universities, research institutes, public good non-profits, and so forth but open to working with all kinds of wonderful people!
Work-life balance is my goal over getting rich; if you support my lifestyle then I am happy to reciprocate with my time & skills.
At home, you can find me homesteading and exploring merging tech knowledge with the natural, real world. Currently refreshing my old electronics skills to build sensors and automation systems for various projects around the house (e.g. growing food, rain water collection, etc..)
I have recently traveled to Boston a few times (its ~3 hours by train) and its amazing! Would love to make some connections down there as well. I can't come down every day but am open-minded to dropping in every once in a while.
I also really want to check out MIT (swap meet & library!), FSF, and all of this super cool culture in Boston that was too far away when I used to live in Ohio.
~18 YoE across backend development, DevOps/SRE/platform engineering, and many other hats. Name drops include Red Hat (quay.io), Rackspace (internal tooling), and Equinix Metal/Packet (platform engineering). Also went through NSF's I-Corps startup program in the early 2010s, so I'm relatively business-aware.
I left my last full-time role in November to go all-in on freelance work and solo projects (homesteading, indie game dev). Now taking on project-based or fractional engagements. No staff augmentation or pager duty.
I bounce between architecture/systems design and hands-on implementation. Looking to build long-term relationships.
Side note: I've used Go professionally and am currently enjoying Rust, but compared to my depth with Python, I won't pretend to be a specialist in either. I'd love projects that push me toward more low-level systems programming or are tangent to my homestead (future sensors/IoT) and Game Dev interests.
~18 YoE across backend development, DevOps/SRE/platform engineering, and many other hats. Name drops include Red Hat (quay.io), Rackspace (internal tooling), and Equinix Metal/Packet (platform engineering). Also went through NSF's I-Corps startup program in the early 2010s, so I'm relatively business-aware.
I left my last full-time role in November to go all-in on freelance work and solo projects (homesteading, indie game dev). Now taking on project-based or fractional engagements. No staff augmentation or pager duty.
I bounce between architecture/systems design and hands-on implementation. Looking to build long-term relationships.
Side note: I've used Go professionally and am currently enjoying Rust, but compared to my depth with Python, I won't pretend to be a specialist in either. I'd love projects that push me toward more low-level systems programming or are tangent to my homestead (future sensors/IoT) and Game Dev interests.
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
17 YoE developing software; mostly Python web-based applications, data pipelines, internal tooling, and automations.
I have worked on products such as Quay.io (Red Hat) and on some cool teams at places such as Equinix Metal (formerly Packet) and Rackspace, among others.
I am currently employed as DevOps/SRE at a small game studio, focused on their non-game product. I really want to get back into writing software instead of managing infrastructure, but unfortunately our business is currently too small for me to switch roles. I have had a hard time finding any interviews that are not DevOps/SRE, so I am hoping for luck or feedback here.
I love working with a variety of languages but don't have any projects to show off. Python is probably still my strongest but happy to use anything and always learning! We use Rust at my current company but I am a beginner at best compared to those who use it full-time.
Happy to do just about anything; I do need a break from on-call rotations, long days, and fast paced culture. But I cannot take a massive pay drop (some recruiters assume that because I live in Maine, I will be extremely cheap labor). I'd be most useful developing/architecting backends for web-based applications and internal tooling but would also love to branch out more. Extremely comfortable with Kubernetes/Containers and automation.
Happy to go full-time, part-time, or even discuss contract/freelance engagements. It just must be a good enough deal to leave my current role
because I can't juggle side gigs.
Remote: Only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Postgres, AWS/GCP/Bare Metal, and many more...
Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtismullins & https://www.kurtismullins.com
Email: [email protected]
18 Years of Experience in the SaaS + Web Apps -> Developer Tooling -> DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering worlds. Currently freelance developer. Open to projects and fractional work. My emphasis is on enjoying the summer with my kids, taking care of our homestead, and making time for my own projects so I'm explicitly not interested in full-time roles.
It would be super cool to get in with folks who are doing anything related to sensors, mesh networks, homestead-tangent projects, homelab things, DevOps for game devs, and so forth. It would definitely be a "learning on the job" scenario for anything outside my professional resume.
I have an LLC and we can work B2B or whatever your preference is... Just no staff augmentation roles, pretty please.
Thanks!