Kwamae McPherson — SRE
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Site Reliability Engineer · Chicago, IL

I build systems
that don't sleep.

Production-grade infrastructure at scale — with a focus on reliability, automation, observability, and cost efficiency.

AWS Kubernetes Datadog OpenTelemetry Terraform Pulumi TypeScript Python Java EKS Claude Code Cursor ChatGpt
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Kwamae McPherson
Kwamae McPherson
SRE · DevOps · Cloud Architect
$500k+
Annual Cloud
Cost Optimized
50+
Clusters
Operated
8+
Years of Eng.
Experience
4+
Companies Scaled
Through Infra Maturity

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Webflow
Dec 2022 — Present

Responsible for improving the reliability and stability of Webflow's customer-facing, production infrastructure currently serving millions of page views per hour.

AWS Engineer — Freelance
LyfeCycle Payments (Covenant Pay)
Apr 2022 — Aug 2024

Orchestrated the deployment of applications including PHP Laravel, Flutter, and JavaScript, utilizing the scalability and flexibility of AWS Fargate.

Site Reliability Engineer
Garmin
Apr 2021 — Dec 2022

Ensured smooth operation of Garmin's backend services infrastructure spanning 1000+ VMs and containers across multiple environments, while building tools to improve the development and release process.

AWS Engineer / Solution Architect — Freelance
CalcuTrack
Apr 2020 — Apr 2022

Led AWS engineering for a financial ASP.NET application on Windows Server. Designed CI/CD pipelines, provisioned environments via IaC, and managed EC2 infrastructure for secure, reliable deployments.

Sr. Application Support Engineer
Commerce Bank
Feb 2020 — Apr 2021

Enhanced server provisioning by implementing IaC across all systems and introduced process improvements to ticketing and incident management procedures.

Sr. Interface Engineer
Cerner (Oracle Health)
Aug 2017 — Feb 2020

Designed, installed, configured, coded, and tested HL7 interfaces enabling interoperability between diverse healthcare systems.

Education

Georgia State University
Bachelor of Business Administration
in Computer Information Systems
2012 – 2017