# Kevin Ingelman

> Engineer at Sierra

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/keviningelman

## Work Experience
### Engineer @ Sierra
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Buoyant, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2024
• Led the Buoyant Cloud team, responsible for the development and maintenance of Buoyant's enterprise SaaS product, written in Go and React, with gRPC and GraphQL interfaces

• Leveraged multiple open source and cloud technologies to monitor Linkerd's health across customer clusters, including Kubernetes client-go, Grafana Agent, gRPC, Cortex, AlertManager, and MySQL

• Developed a build pipeline for Buoyant's distribution of Linkerd that provided artifact publishing with continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation, using GitHub actions, GitHub container registry, Snyk and Docker

• Served as a super maintainer of the Linkerd project, focused on the Go implementation of the control plane and CLI

### Sr. Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015
• Led the Monorail Core team, responsible for the stability of the legacy Ruby on Rails monolith as it was decomposed into a service-oriented architecture

• Decommissioned multiple under-utilized storage and caching backends, leading to a substantial reduction in infrastructure costs

• Developed key features for the backend Tweet service, written in Scala, including the ability to schedule tweets and the ability to withhold tweets on a per-country basis

• Built out the client-facing API and backend services for surfacing realtime Tweet analytics data in a performant and scalable way

### Engineer @ Lithium Technologies
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
• Developed core functionality for the main customer-facing site, a robust search tool to measure and manage social media impact

• Combined search data from the in-house document index with additional external API content from sites such as Flickr, Twitter and YouTube, to create a rich and seamless user experience

• Overhauled the ecommerce system to support invoicing, credit card payments, contractual discounts and variable billing cycles

• Enabled automatic synchronization to Salesforce of customer contact information, billing parameters and service details

### Developer @ Scout Labs
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
• Acquired by Lithium Technologies in May 2010

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
• Developed and administered platform tools to assist in the org-wide software development lifecycle

• Implemented a continuous build system to automate package building across multiple architectures and operating systems

• Used Ruby on Rails to construct an inventory management system with a MySQL database backend, extending a REST API

• Compiled static reference answers to be displayed on Bing search results pages, using data pulled from Freebase and Wikipedia

### Tools Developer @ Powerset
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
• Acquired by Microsoft in August 2008

### New Media Developer @ Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
• Oversaw the development, maintenance and regular upkeep of multiple organizational websites for various departments and projects

• Contracted appropriate web services for the management of online content, constituents, fundraising, advocacy and email messaging

### Web Transition Specialist @ Marijuana Policy Project
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
• Relocated content and site files from the former MPP website into the Kintera Sphere Content Management System

• Authored Python and Bash scripts to find, categorize and annotate hundreds of HTML files stored a remote web server

### U.S. Student Fulbright Scholar @ Ukrainian Catholic University
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
• Implemented a course management system for use by faculty and students to facilitate online learning and course registration


## Education
### BS in Computer Science, Economics
University of Richmond


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/klingerf
- Portfolio: http://klingerf.com
- Portfolio: http://buoyant.io

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Last updated: 2026-04-11