Kanton Budge

Kanton Budge has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. At Wave, they worked as a Senior Build and Release Engineer starting in 2020. Prior to that, they spent a significant amount of time at Big Fish Games, initially as a System Administrator II focusing on DevOps Engineering and later as an Oracle Cloud CRM System Administrator. In these roles, they developed dynamic forms for support and mobile sites, provided administration for Customer Service chat, and worked on back-end systems architecture and implementation. Kanton also has experience in the entertainment industry, having co-founded Oh The Humanity Productions and hosting an annual film festival. Kanton also worked at Wizards of the Coast as a QA Test Engineer and Senior Operations Coordinator, where they conducted game testing, managed user acceptance testing, and administered customer service and marketing systems. Earlier in their career, Kanton worked as an Apple Repair Technician at Westwind Computing.

Kanton Budge holds an Associate of Arts (AA) degree in Theatre and Creative Writing from Central Wyoming College. In addition to their degree, they have obtained several certifications including Certified Jenkins Engineer from Linux Academy in September 2020, Network Routing Fundamentals from Linux Academy in September 2020, Software Architecture: Domain-Driven Design from LinkedIn in September 2020, Source Control with Git from Linux Academy in September 2020, and Succeeding in DevOps from LinkedIn in September 2020.