Aaron Kalin
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Co-Owner at Slightly Furry
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States 8 work roles
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Co-Owner
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Aaron Kalin is listed as Co-Owner at Slightly Furry, based in Seattle, Washington, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Aaron Kalin.

Aaron Kalin previously worked as Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Zymergen and Tech Evangelist at Datadog.

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I am a very experienced software engineer and system administrator working in various roles over a 23 year career in technology. I have done everything from computer repair to maintaining and upgrading a globally networked DNS and Domain provider across 4 continents and 6 Data Centers. My passion lately has been to be a leader and mentor to the newer folks in technology, especially anyone in an underrepresented group. I'm an advocate for diversity in technology and open source software to make the world a better place.

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Slightly Furry
Slightly Furry
Co-Owner
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Co-Owner

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Seattle, Washington, United States

Started the world's first furry owned and operated Cidery and Meadery in Seattle which is also the only openly queer owned Cidery in the United States. Founded the company with my husband and brought in another co-founder to create the company and get it off the ground. There is now a taproom and production facility with a staff of 5 that continues to grow.

Jul 2020 - Present

Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Remote

Lead an internal SRE team of 3 responsible for operating Infrastructure Automation tooling and Machine Learning software for laboratory researchers at scale. I helped tame their insane 24/7 on-call schedule into something more sustainable and encouraged a work-life balance for my team given the vast amount of software systems they had to manage. My team.

Apr 2022 - Dec 2022

Tech Evangelist

Remote

Joined an experienced team of Technical Evangelists who communicate complex subjects in an accessible form to present ideas and concepts to the broader technology industry. We present at technical conferences, webinars, and meetups along side writing blog posts and curating documentation. There is also internal coaching and mentoring to help engineers in.

Jan 2020 - Jul 2021

Senior Software Engineer

Packet

Remote

Hired as a Senior Software Engineer where I made significant improvements to their bare metal cloud provisioning workflow and network flow billing systems. Created an internal group to discuss and change policy around development best practices within the engineering organization.

Jul 2019 - Dec 2019

Caffeine Powered Server Fox

Remote

Stabilized, expanded, and upgraded bare metal servers across 6 globally distributed data centers. Deployed BGP network changes for anycast and local load balancing via ECMP for web frontend. Built and open sourced dozens of Chef Infra Client cookbooks and was a significant contributor to the Chef community for 7 years.

Mar 2014 - May 2019

Sysadmin

Remote

Hired as a developer and migrated to a Sysadmin role. Expanded them from 1 Rackspace system to a hybrid cloud setup with BlueBox hardware and AWS ec2 nodes to scale out services.

Jun 2012 - Feb 2014

Developer

Chicago, IL

Started as their first Apprentice Developer in Chicago and quickly rose to full developer within a year with multiple successful client deliveries and positive feedback.

Jan 2011 - Apr 2012

Mac Genius

Tampa, FL

Started as a Specialist at Apple Retail at International Plaza in Tampa and joined the Mac Genius team within a year in July of 2008. Developed unique in-store software automation tools for other teams in the store and had many positive customer interactions.

Sep 2007 - Jan 2011
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Aaron Kalin works for Slightly Furry.

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Aaron Kalin is listed as Co-Owner at Slightly Furry.

Where is Aaron Kalin based?

Aaron Kalin is based in Seattle, Washington, United States while working with Slightly Furry.

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Aaron Kalin has worked for Slightly Furry, Zymergen, Datadog, Packet, and Dnsimple.

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