Kathie Kinde Clark

I believe the best ideas in the AWS ecosystem shouldn't be locked behind paywalls or big marketing budgets. That's why I spend a lot of my time building communities where knowledge flows freely.

I'm VP of Operations at Rhythmic Technologies, where I lead Sales, Marketing, Alliances, Customer Success, and Compliance. But the work I'm most proud of happens outside my day job.

I founded the AWS Partner User Group—a free, peer-driven community of 100+ partners helping each other navigate the AWS ecosystem. I lead the AWS Cleveland and AWS DMV User Groups. I lead AWS DMV Community Day and serve on the organizing committee for AWS Midwest Community Day. In 2025, AWS recognized this work with the "Invent & Simplify Champion" award and a Community Travel Grant. Most recently, I was awarded Female MSP Leader of the Year by Superops. 

I have a pattern of seeing gaps nobody's filling and stepping in. Sometimes that's building a community. Sometimes that's mentoring early-career women so they don't have to learn lessons the hard way. Sometimes it's just asking the question everyone else is afraid to ask.

In my free time, I'm a passionate but frustrated Cleveland sports fan, an avid photographer, GenAI enthusiast, and mom to three grown children and three unruly cats.

Member

Making Software Greener 

Founder

Aetherical

Owner

Ars Invenio Collective LLC

Co founder of a Board Game Design/Publishing Cooperative.

"Alone, we can only do so much; together we can do so much more!"

Co-Founder

Steam Kitty Games Ltd

Founder and Chief Designer

Weft of the Moon

Small press publishing house focusing on Weaving Topics. Developed framework for production of weaving texts, automated layout, website, and software to create weaving patterns.

OCLC

Lead Software Engineer

Northwoods

DevOps Engineer

Chemical Abstracts Service

Responsible for care & feeding of JEE Application servers, Java consulting and performance tuning.  Java best practices and troubleshooting.  Development of applications to support internal customers in Java, Ruby, RoR, Python, Shell Scripts, F5 BigIP LTM.  Infrastructure building with Docker, OpenStack, and related technologies. Hadoop & Cloudera Manager. Development of monitoring and instrumentation to reduce outages. Open Source Governance "Czar".

Senior Systems Engineer

Fairflo

Co Founder of Fairflo fair trade marketplace.

Co Founder

Insight Global

On coltract to Excelacom, working on working on the Wisdom project for Verizon and Puerto Rico
Telecom. Responsible for maintenance and administration of Solaris servers,
configuration of WebSphere Interchange Server, WebLogic servers, creating policies,
procedures, and tools for builds and deployments, system and application monitoring,
configuration of AIX servers, MQ Series configuration & administration,
troubleshooting, IP networking, Java mentoring, and shell scripts for administration.
Created a framework for monitoring application logs across servers.

Consultant

When I was young, I wanted to be a Renaissance person -- a polymath who is wide and deep. It's a journey with lots to learn along the way!

I believe that the most important skills for an IT professional are communication and a willingness to work with customers to solve their pain. Fundamentally, every problem in IT is to solve a people problem.

Along my DevOps journey, I've become very pragmatic -- it's not about the tools; it's about delivering value and finding and mitigating speed bumps.

Recently I've been captivated by sustainability in IT -- how anyone engaged in value delivery can affect sustainability, streamline value, and reduce costs.

Outside of IT, I am a handweaver, design tabletop board games, roast coffee, read lots of books, and experiment in the kitchen.

Specialties: DevOps, Internet Development, Java, Ruby, Unix, Linux, Cloud, Infrastructure, Containers, Mentoring / Team Lead, Public Speaking/Training.

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