# Kyle Zielinski

> Staff DevOps Engineer at Drizly

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kylezielinski

## Work Experience
### Staff DevOps Engineer @ Drizly, an Uber Company
Jan 2021 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Led the organization's migration to Kubernetes, standardizing production, pre-production, and 20+ staging environments
- Transformed Drizly's software deployment methodology to leverage containers and autoscaling
- Build upon and optimized CICD piplines in Argo Workflows for application deployments to K8s
- Secured and modernized much of Drizly's legacy infrastructure
- Deployed and managed Kubernetes tooling via GitOps with ArgoCD

### Cyber Security Engineer @ MITRE
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Kessel Run: Critical Applications Team (ADCP)
- Managed, monitored, and upgraded applications in Kubernetes
- Managed supporting infrastructure using Terraform
- Led migration of CICD pipelines from EC2 to Kubernetes to reduce cost

Kessel Run: Full Stack Developer
- Learned and performed significant backlogged database migrations to the team's Kotlin + Spring Boot backend and React.js frontend
- Fixed security vulnerabilities and standardized security controls

### Cyber Research Intern @ MITRE
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
- Designed and implemented a web-based data visualization and analytics interface using PostgreSQL and Rust
- Wrote and deployed cross-platform application cookbooks with Chef and compliance tests using InSpec for both Windows Server and RHEL systems
- Awarded MVP on the winning team during the summer pilot of MITRE’s 2020 eCTF collegiate challenge

### Systems Integration Intern @ GKN Aerospace
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Cromwell, Connecticut, United States
- Monitored and maintained network and server systems for both the manufacturing and IT departments
- Coordinated and upgraded the existing wireless infrastructure to a new solution using AeroHive
- Created a development environment for our SCADA system and automated the provisioning
process. This enabled our team to perform a complex system upgrade during a short maintenance period.
- Developed a data logging application which allowed engineers to confirm manufacturing processes
- Created an application that automated manual operations during the manufacturing process


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering - Cybersecurity
University of Connecticut
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-zielinski-283624133

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Last updated: 2026-03-22