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Katherine McClintic

Senior DevOps Engineer

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KubernetesSystems ThinkingLeadership and Mentoring

System Architecture & Projects

YAML Pipeline Migration

Led the design and implementation of AZDO YAML pipelines to transition multislice deployments off of classic pipelines

Key Achievements:

  • Proactively reverse-engineered and documented classic slice-by-slice Kubernetes deployment pipelines to establish a strong foundation for modernization efforts
  • Designed and implemented modern Azure DevOps YAML pipelines to replace the classic pipelines, introducing a modular, maintainable framework for slice-by-slice deployments
  • Streamlined deployment workflows by reducing complexity, improving reliability, and enabling easier onboarding and future enhancements
Azure DevOpsYAMLKubernetesHelmCI/CDDeployment Automation

Cilium Config Failures

Led identification, mitigation, and observability improvements for Cilium pod failures in Kubernetes clusters post-Karpenter adoption

Key Achievements:

  • Proactively identified stability issues with Cilium pods after the migration to Karpenter and raised awareness with the team.
  • Developed an automated pipeline on a scheduled trigger to apply a temporary remediation by recycling Cilium pods on nodes where containers were stuck.
  • Created a monitoring dashboard to track metrics on how frequently these events occurred and in which clusters, enabling better visibility and long-term remediation planning.
KubernetesDatadogCiliumKarpenterAzure DevOps

Impact & Achievements

Development & Leadership

Team Impact

  • • Mentored 3 less senior engineers
  • • Created wiki tagging system for the entire DevOps organization
  • • Led 3 major system migrations

Code Quality

  • • Led adoption of TypeScript across backend
  • • Established coding standards
  • • Reduced technical debt by 40%

Infrastructure & DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

  • • Achieved a 95% on CKA (2024)
  • • Zero-downtime deployments
  • • Implemented Karpenter on several clusters for cost savings vs CastAI

CI/CD

  • • Migrated 30+ AZDO pipelines from classic to YAML
  • • Mentored developers to feel empowered to create their own YAML pipelines
  • • Fixed faulty Cypress and k6 pipelines before developers noticed

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Let's Connect

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Washington, DC

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kdmcclin@gmail.com

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