Ashton Kinslow
Senior Software Engineer II at Experient
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshton Kinslow is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Austin with 11 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical web and IoT systems. He specializes in Go and AWS, having designed a distributed stream-processing IoT platform adopted by a top-five global reinsurance provider, and has deep production experience with databases and messaging (ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, NSQ, MQTT). Ashton blends hands-on engineering and consulting across startups and enterprise teams, leading platform engineering efforts and improving reliability through robust error handling and test-driven maintenance in open-source Go projects. He’s pragmatic about trade-offs, prefers solving hard backend problems, and has a track record of turning prototype ideas into resilient, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Harding University
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Github Skills (24)
caching10
testing10
string-interpolation10
go10
error-handling10
disk-cache10
object-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
redis9
jwt9
nodejs9
risc8
risc-v8
memcached8
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
eko/gocache
May 2022 - Jun 2022
☔️ A complete Go cache library that brings you multiple ways of managing your caches
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Ashton primarily focused on enhancing the error handling and stability of the Go cache library. Their contributions involved adding standard "not found" error implementations across multiple cache store implementations, including Freecache, Redis, Memcache, GoCache, Ristretto, and Bigcache. They also added a comparison test for the "not found" errors and modified the chain set function to ensure consistent behavior, demonstrating a focus on robust cache behavior. Further contributions involved resolving conflicts and fixing tests, indicating active maintenance and refinement of the codebase.
go-cachegogolangcachememcache
ashtonian/RQL.NET
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
RQL.NET is a resource query language for .NET intended for use with web apps. It provides a simple, hackable api for creating dynamic sql queries from user submitted JSON.
Contributions:71 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 1 year 7 months
dotnetdynamic-sqlquery-language
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