Kevin Goslar
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Goslar is a Principal Software Engineer with 14–15 years of hands-on experience building scalable systems, leading engineering organizations, and shipping widely used open-source tooling. He created Git Town, an open-source workflow automation used by tens of thousands of developers, and has deep backend and automation expertise in Go, Rust, and TypeScript alongside broad full‑stack experience. Kevin combines pragmatic, no‑ego engineering with servant leadership—growing teams, mentoring managers, and driving cross‑functional initiatives at companies from Google to Walmart Global Tech. He has a PhD focused on IoT information management, published research on modern AI, and a track record of turning ambitious technical initiatives into repeatable processes and enjoyable, high‑performing teams.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Information Management for Internet of Things, PhD Information Management for Internet of Things at Technische Universität Dresden
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
git10
scripting10
bash10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
testing9
github-ci9
configuration-management9
githubaction-workflow9
develop8
logging6
gitflow6
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
git-town/git-town
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Git branches made easy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:40 releases, 284 reviews, 989 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and automating the underlying structure of the Git Town project. They reorganized helper files, extracted terminal commands, file management, and configuration details into dedicated helper files. Additionally, the user implemented a test automation to enable more efficient development workflow.
git-flowproductivitycommand-lineworkflow
kevgo/node-text-stream-search
Jan 2016 - Aug 2022
Searches for occurrences of a given search term in Node.js text streams
Contributions:1 release, 157 commits, 257 PRs in 6 years 8 months
nodejs
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