Summary
Donovan Hubbard is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD pipelines. He has driven reliability and performance improvements at enterprises like Cisco, Kantata, and USAA—leading a migration to managed MySQL, cutting API latency by 40%, and establishing SLO-driven culture and training across R&D. Comfortable across the stack, Donovan’s background spans networking, Linux/Windows server administration, infrastructure-as-code, secrets management, and Splunk in public cloud environments. He pairs hands-on coding (including Unity full‑stack contributions to character and systems UI/UX) with systems thinking to solve thorny production issues and reverse-engineer vendor systems for novel metrics. Known for creating tooling and automation that save operational hours, he also regularly teaches teams Kubernetes and SRE practices. Donovan brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to reliability engineering, informed by a master’s-level information systems education and deep operational experience.
8 years of coding experience