Kevin Guthrie
Senior Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Guthrie is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who currently manages DNS/DHCP/IPAM for the world's largest retailer from Fayetteville, Arkansas. He brings a hybrid networking and software background—progressing from senior network technician roles into engineering leadership at Walmart Global Tech—blending hands-on wired/wireless operations with scalable infrastructure development. An active contributor to the cloudflare/pingora Rust project, he has improved core functionality, caching, rate limiting and TLS support, demonstrating strong systems-level Rust experience. Kevin’s practical education in computer systems networking and telecommunications underpins a pragmatic approach to solving production reliability and compatibility issues at scale. He is particularly skilled at refactoring legacy network codebases into more maintainable, secure services while keeping operational impact minimal.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at NorthWest Arkansas Community College
Github Skills (10)
mtls10
rust10
tls1210
tls1310
libtls10
rate-limiting9
caching9
cli7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/pingora
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 31 reviews, 30 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `pingora` project by refactoring and implementing various features within the Rust codebase. Their work included addressing code review comments, fixing bugs related to compiler compatibility, and improving the codebase's structure through refactoring and the addition of new functionalities. The user also worked on improving the caching mechanism and optimizing rate limiting examples within the project. Additional contributions involved refining command-line interface help text and incorporating Rustls for TLS support.
RookAndPawn/pausable_clock
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
Rust tool for dealing with time that pause and resume
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 6 months
pauserustrustlangrust-languagerust-lang
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