Kevin Rutten
Founding Member And Architect at FiveTwenty Inc.
British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Rutten is a seasoned cloud and systems architect with 15 years of engineering experience and a track record of building reliable production platforms from startup to enterprise. As a founding member and architect at FiveTwenty Inc., he applies deep operational expertise honed over eight years as a Senior Cloud Engineer at Stark & Wayne and earlier roles in application support and embedded systems. Comfortable across cloud-native operations, application support, and hardware-adjacent design, he repeatedly bridges the gap between infrastructure and application teams to deliver maintainable systems. Based in British Columbia, he brings practical, hands-on leadership and a history of long-tenured, remote collaboration that enables distributed teams to ship safely at scale. An uncommon strength is his background spanning low-level hardware/design work through large-scale cloud operations, giving him a pragmatic perspective on trade-offs across the stack.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
blacksmith-community/redis-forge-boshrelease
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
A Blacksmith Forge for deploying dedicated standalone and clustered Redis instances
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 16 commits in 2 years 5 months
forgeredisbosh
blacksmith-community/mariadb-forge-boshrelease
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
A Blacksmith Forge for deploying dedicated standalone and clustered MySQL / MariaDB instances
Contributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
forgemariadbmysqlbosh
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