Kyle Galbraith — Co-Founder

I believe in failing fast, not for the sake of wasting time, but for the sake of gaining more information than what I had before. Failing without learning is just failure, but failing with pride, excitement, and a hunger to learn more is the seed of success. I love to solve the problems facing customers. It is an incredible process where you get to try new things, learn, improve, and make a user’s life better. I can solve any problem given to me inside or outside my comfort zone. Although it is the problems outside my comfort zone that excite me the most because they are often the problems that are in need of a solution that provides the greatest value. I have helped companies maintain legacy systems to deliver value to thousands of users. I have been a seed developer on a green field product that launched in less than six months and then took over the team of six developers from there. I established a new hiring process to bring in junior developers. Expediting their onboarding process by mentoring them in the team's culture and technical stack so that they could bring customer value in their first week. Passion, accountability, and responsibility are values I live by not only in my professional career but in my personal life as well. Graduating Cum Laude with a B.S. in Computer Science while working full time at a startup as a QA engineer was where I learned that work ethic makes or breaks you. My goal is pretty simple, I want to be a force multiplier in everything I do. I bring my work ethic, accountability, responsibility, and technical background to everything I do to solve the real problems facing people. So let's roll up our sleeves, dive in, and get things done. Some of my “get things done” milestones: - Author of "How To Host, Secure, and Deliver Static Websites on Amazon Web Services" - AWS Certified Professional Solutions Architect & DevOps Engineer - Successfully growing, expanding, and scaling a Startup

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with strong leadership in software development.

Location: Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Experience: 21 yrs

Career Highlights

Expert in accelerating Docker image builds.
Proven track record in mentoring junior developers.
Author of a recognized AWS deployment guide.

Work Experience

Depot

Co-Founder & CEO (3 yrs 7 mos)

Era Software

Staff Platform Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)

Thorn

Staff Software Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)

Slalom Consulting

Consultant (4 mos)

Zapproved

Software Engineering Manager (1 yr 2 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)

QA Engineer (2 yrs 9 mos)

City of Wilsonville

Utility Worker (2 yrs 5 mos)

Wylder Promotions

Freelance Videographer and Editor (1 yr 5 mos)

Kyle Galbraith

Freelance Web Developer (9 yrs 1 mo)

Education

Bachelors of Science at Portland State University

Associates of Applied Science at Portland Community College

Kyle Galbraith

Co-Founder

Montpellier, Occitanie, France21 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in accelerating Docker image builds.
Proven track record in mentoring junior developers.
Author of a recognized AWS deployment guide.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with strong leadership in software development.

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Skills

Other Skills

C#Amazon Web Services (AWS)Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesWeb DevelopmentProject ManagementSoftware Quality AssuranceTest Driven DevelopmentCloud ComputingAndroid DevelopmentOOPUnit TestingScrumContinuous IntegrationStart-ups

About

Experience

21 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Depot

Co-Founder & CEO

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Accelerate your Docker image builds and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time.

Era software

Staff Platform Engineer

May 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Thorn

Staff Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Portland, Oregon

Slalom consulting

Consultant

Mar 2018 – Jul 2018 · 4 mos · Portland, Oregon

Architected and delivered solutions for clients centered around leveraging Cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Helped Portland-based companies assess their readiness for DevOps and Continuous Integration/Deployment practices. Led training sessions focused on Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and Cloud best practices.

Zapproved

3 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Portland, Oregon

Managed an agile development team to deliver features for the newest SaaS product at Zapproved, Digital Discovery Pro. In addition to people management I worked collaboratively with product management to architect solutions to complex feature sets using the latest technologies provided by Amazon Web Services. Improved the visibility of the engineering process to the rest of the organization. Analyzed cost optimization, security, and performance improvements for the product. Led multiple hiring efforts including a junior rapid on-boarding program.

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Portland, Oregon

Software Engineer developing for the full stack of a greenfield cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system that handles first pass review for Fortune 500 legal council. The platform is responsible for indexing and searching multi-terabyte legal corpus using a 100% SaaS approach delivered on AWS using SQS, SNS, EC2, OpenID, ElasticSearch, S3, Lambda, and plenty more.
Responsible for being a key contributor to the platform as we take it from concept to full production release. Initially worked on the authentication layer in the early stages using OpenID Connect. Transitioned to more of a utility developer primarily focused on the api and backend layers using Web API 2 and Entity Framework as well as the lead dev ops engineer to deploy the infrastructure into AWS. Other work areas include working on the processing implementation, search capabilities, and environment security.

QA Engineer

Aug 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Portland, Oregon

Application tester, front end web development, search engine optimization, cross browser testing, html/css programming, javascript programming. Responsible for providing customers with a high quality product via thorough acceptance testing. Developed testing workflows and automated testing scripts. Technologies included C#, Python, JavaScript, Selenium, and Powershell.

City of wilsonville

Utility Worker

Apr 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Customer Service relations with the citizen public.
Landscape design and maintenance.
Baseball field design and maintenance.
Park Maintenance

Wylder promotions

Freelance Videographer and Editor

Apr 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

Shot promotional videos on site for Thursday Night Motocross.
Edited promotional videos for Thursday Night Motocross.

Kyle galbraith

Freelance Web Developer

Feb 2005 – Mar 2014 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Started my career back in high school doing freelance web development for a variety of clients all across the United States. Heavy focus on migrating old WordPress applications, standing up Joomla installations, and building out traditional static websites.