Kevin Sidbon

DevOps Engineer Software Engineer

kevin.sidbon@gmail.com gitlab.com/kevin.sidbon linkedin.com/in/kevin-sidbon www.kevinsid.com

DevOps Projects Full case studies: www.kevinsid.com

Taiga — AWS & Kubernetes Deployment | DevOps Project

  • Provisioned staging and production environments using Terraform, AWS EKS, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, and Amazon MQ.
  • Built GitLab CI/CD pipelines for testing, Docker image builds, infrastructure provisioning, and Kubernetes deployments.
  • Configured private cluster access through AWS SSM, IAM permissions, load balancing, health probes, and autoscaling.
  • Implemented monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.

Other DevOps Projects: Spring Vet Clinic + Keycloak · Open edX · MoleCrab (MLOps) Full case studies: www.kevinsid.com

Professional Experience

2024–2026

Software Developer — Independent Contracts

  • Built Python and Java frameworks and third-party integrations to automate grading, lesson preparation, and progress tracking.
  • Developed automated tests using pytest, unittest, and JUnit, with Git for version control.

2020–2023

Software Developer — CodaKid

  • Developed and maintained Python, Java, and Lua applications with third-party software integrations.
  • Automated builds and dependency management using Gradle, and implemented unit tests for grading and validation.
  • Delivered software features alongside product and education teams in an Agile workflow.

2017–2020

Software Developer — Engineer Success

  • Managed AWS infrastructure hosting student servers and maintained application compatibility across framework versions.
  • Built Java and Python tools integrating REST APIs to automate operational workflows.
  • Developed embedded systems and hardware prototypes, including educational robots and a touchscreen tablet.

Technical Skills

Cloud & platform
AWS, Linux, Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible
Delivery & observability
Git, GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana
Development
Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash, Lua, SQL, HTML/CSS, APIs
Engineering
OOP, data structures, algorithms, modular design, debugging, unit/integration/E2E/code-validation testing
Collaboration
Agile development, Jira, Confluence
Languages
English/French bilingual; Tagalog basic

Education

2026

Bachelor in DevOps Systems Administration

La Capsule, France | 2026

French state-recognized qualification — RNCP Level 6 (bachelor’s-level)

2016 - 2019

Bachelors in Software Engineering & Philosophy - Arizona State University

2018 - 2019

Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative - Autonomous Collective Systems Laboratory

Certifications

Cloud & DevOps Engineer Certificate — La CapsuleAWS Certified Cloud PractitionerCKA — In progress (Q4 2026)