Alson Kemp
Software Development Consultant at [self]
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlson Kemp is a seasoned software development consultant and technology executive with 20 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems across startups and enterprises from San Francisco. He has led platform rewrites, architected high-throughput IoT and data acquisition systems, and scaled infrastructures by orders of magnitude while maintaining uptime. Comfortable both hands-on and at the executive level, he has built CI/CD-driven, serverless and containerized platforms, hired and integrated remote teams, and navigated security audits for Fortune 1000 customers. His consulting work spans medical recruiting, payment security, machine vision for agriculture, and SaaS businesses, demonstrating a talent for applying new technologies to diverse markets. An early contributor to Haskell's Cabal build system, he brings practical open-source experience improving build tooling and dependency management. Trained as an engineer (BSEE/MSEE) and an MIT Sloan MBA, he pairs technical depth with product and strategic leadership.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, MSEE at Oregon State UniversityMBA (SM), MBA (SM) at MIT Sloan School of ManagementBSEE, BSEE at Washington University
Github Skills (6)
cabal10
build-system10
package-management10
haskell10
configuration-file9
configurations9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
haskell/cabal
Apr 2006 - Apr 2006
Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alson primarily contributed to the Haskell Cabal build system, with a focus on integrating `cabal-get` and improving the build process. Their work included fixing dependency issues, removing redundant code exports, and refactoring the codebase by moving modules. They also modified Cabal's build infrastructure and configuration files.
cabal-installcabalhaskellhackage
alsonkemp/turbinado
Nov 2008 - Aug 2020
Contributions:39 commits in 11 years 11 months
mvchaskellweb-frameworkweb-mvc
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