Kura Labs
Ruth Jurgensen serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees at the Brooklyn Museum and LREI, along with holding the position of Chief Executive Officer at Prep for Prep since July 2020. Jurgensen has also contributed as an Advisor for Kura Labs since May 2021 and was a Board of Directors member for The Dovetail Project Chicago from May 2018 to December 2022, a program dedicated to supporting young African American fathers. Previous roles include Associate Principal at Francis W. Parker School and High School Principal at Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School, where Jurgensen was integral to managing various administrative and educational functions. Jurgensen's early career included multiple teaching and administrative positions across several institutions. Jurgensen holds a Master of Arts in English and American Literature from Brown University and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Connecticut College.
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Kura Labs
Kura Labs is an online academy that provides free advanced training and job placement in Cloud Infrastructure, SRE and DevOps engineering roles at Fortune 1000 and VC-backed startups for aspiring engineers from under-resourced communities across the U.S. The 500+ hours of live interactive instruction from leading industry practitioners entail extensive individual and group-based work streams building automated deployment pipelines for enterprise software applications as well as scalable cloud infrastructure. Key Competencies Include: 1. Establishing proficiency in Linux environments with extensive use of BASH and Python to automate core processes involving resource provisioning, monitoring, security, and scaling. 2. Building and scaling automated software deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker (ECS), Kuberntes (EKS), Helm, and CircleCI to provision micro-service applications. 3. Monitoring, trouble-shooting and remediating application and infrastructure issues and incidents using DataDog, CloudWatch, and Splunk. 4. Building, securing, and deploying N-tier micro-service infrastructure and VPCs (multiple AZs, subnets, gateways, load balancers, APIs, application servers, databases) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, and Keeper. 5. Leveraging Lambda and Fargate and other serverless components to selectively manage dynamic scaling of various capabilities based on business trade-off analysis.