History
CloudKinesys founded in 2017.
The senior founders of CloudKinesys, Michael Zeitlin, Chris Bentz & Andy Leach met while working in the Cloud and Professional Services group of Ericsson, a multinational networking and telecommunications company. While working on various cloud and virtualization projects, they realized they enjoyed working together and had a complementary set of high-demand skills. When Ericsson broadly shut down their Atlanta operation, they seized the opportunity to combine their talents to develop automation/development platforms and CloudKinesys was born. The founders quickly added David Vinnenberg and Donald Baugh to the team to expand both the development and field support expertise. Since then, the management team has enhanced their skill set offerings by cherry picking exceptionally talented developers and network analysts to add to their growing team. Together, the members of CloudKinesys can architect, design, develop and support on-premise and cloud based solutions for almost any industry.
CloudKinesys is a boutique, customer service focused firm offering both high level design and low level development in infrastructure and automation in cloud spaces.
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Founders
senior FOUNDER
Michael Zeitlin, CEO
Michael has 20+ years of leadership experience in Software, Services and Solution companies with expertise building high performance teams, selling projects, and ensuring customer satisfaction. He brings a long history of success in positions of increased responsibility and customer interaction in leadership, pre-sales, services product management, and implementation of complex managed services to the team. He has a holistic understanding of the Customer Operations, Support, Professional Services, and Software as a Service sectors with experience in Media, Telecom, Retail, ICT, and Financial industries.
Education
Cornell University
BA, Government & History
Indiana University
MBA, Operations Management
US Navy
Lieutenant, Surface Warfare
senior FOUNDER
Chris Bentz, CTO
Chris brings 20+ years of high level industry experience to his work developing private, public & hybrid cloud infrastructures and designing and deploying combined VM/Container applications.
With his extensive knowledge of programming languages, development environments, infrastructure as code automation tools, and deployment technologies with strong agile methodology practices, Chris has a unique ability to quickly assess a customer’s project’s needs and efficiently determine how to best meet them in a cost effective and innovative manner. Customers consistently appreciate Chris' professionalism and love working with him. In his downtime, Chris can be found with his dogs and human family members doing jigsaw puzzles, playing strategic board games or world cruising.
Education
University of Toronto
BS, Specialist in Computer Science
Certificates
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solution Architect-Associate
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer
senior founder
Andy Leach, CIO
Andy has been an entrepreneur since his 20s, starting his own successful Internet company straight out of college. Since then he has accumulated 20+ years of data center, cloud and infrastructure experience with a wide range of skills in switches, networks, firewalls, clouds, monitoring and automation. Andy is a dynamic speaker and is exceptionally skilled at solving complex cloud problems. In his free time, he can be found coaching his daughters’ lacrosse teams.
Education
Murray State
Certificate
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer
founder
David Vinnenberg
David has 12+ years of industry experience in software design and loves working on projects around the globe in various industries including Defense, Telecommunications, and Cloud.
Certificate
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer
Education
Francis Marion University
BS, Computer Science
Minor in Mathematics
Clemson University
founder
Don Baugh
Don brings 40+ years systems engineering on various operating systems (VMS, Solaris, Linux) & cloud experience with AWS, OpenStack, Azure and Google cloud. Don loves to work abroad wherever a customer needs him and is an avid biker, here he is tackling the Alps!
Certificate
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solution Architect-Associate
Team Members
Robert Lee
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
John Wang
Site Reliability Engineer
Core Development
Aaron marcks
Program Manager
•Product Owner
•Solution Architect
Michael jones
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Justin Venditti
Technical Project Manager & Cloud Integration Engineer
• AWS Solution Architect - Associate
Lawrence Ough
Project Manager
Experience
CloudKinesys has deep experience in computing. From Development to Support to Network/System Administration to Quality Assurance and DevOps. We have over a century of combined experience working with, supporting, monitoring, managing, expanding, driving and operating computer systems, software, hardware and networks.
Our Cloud based knowledge and experience has exploded over the previous years as Public and Private clouds have become the industry norm. Solving problems in this area is a passion for us - from all aspects of automation to deep problem analysis, monitoring and support.
CloudKinesys has the tools and experience to get the job done.
Industry Experience
25+ yrs Unix / Linux
25+ yrs Software Development
10+ yrs Virtualization
10+ yrs Public Cloud
10+ yrs Private Cloud
Cloud Technologies
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Compute Platform
Openstack
Technology & Cloud Partners
Clients
CloudKinesys brings our unique experience supporting clouds and software to the assistance of many clients.
We would love the chance to put our skills to work for your business!