Justin Kilpatrick
Contributor at Hawk Networks, Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Kilpatrick is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience turning research ideas into scalable, production-grade networking and telecom products. Based in Raleigh, he co-founded Hawk Networks and currently contributes to Althea, building open-source distributed routing, billing, and settlement systems that enable automated peering and stablecoin micropayments for ISPs and private cellular operators. His background at Red Hat on performance and scale for OpenStack—where he helped create benchmarking CI, Browbeat orchestration, and contributed to Cyborg—reflects deep systems, observability, and accelerated-computing expertise. Justin combines low-level performance tuning (rsyslog, collectd, Elasticsearch, Grafana) with product-facing platforms like Key5G and Operator Tools, bridging edge data planes and cloud management. He’s habitually practical: taking academic protocols through to resilient deployments and even building financial models like Liquid Infrastructure to fund network construction. This mix of research-driven engineering, open-source leadership, and operator-focused productization makes him effective at shipping complex infrastructure that ISPs can actually run.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University
English
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Civcraft/civcraftsite
May 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
civcraft
althea-net/batman-secure
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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