Kevin Kuehler
Senior Software Engineer at Category Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kuehler is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building high-performance backend systems, DevOps tooling, and browser-level features. He has shipped production software at companies from Brave to Illumina, including hardware-accelerated processing for large NGS datasets and core browser engineering. Kevin contributes to notable open-source projects like systemd—adding dependency-aware job modes and kernel log protections—and to distributed config tooling where he improved reliability, logging, and resource-awareness. Comfortable across Linux stacks, CI/CD, and observability, he has a proven track record of automating workflows that save engineering time and reduce incidents. Colleagues benefit from his blend of systems-level thinking and practical operational improvements that quietly harden complex platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Del Norte High School
English
Github Skills (19)
socket-io10
seccomp10
init10
configuration-management10
linux10
c1110
c1710
system10
socket10
go10
netlink10
systemd10
testing9
security9
devops9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
systemd/systemd
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
The systemd System and Service Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 68 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the systemd project by implementing and modifying core system components and system control (systemctl) functionality. Their work included adding new job modes for managing dependencies, enhancing status output with dependency information, and modifying core transaction logic to align with the new triggering mechanisms. They also added a new security feature (ProtectKernelLogs) to enhance the security of the systemd and to mask kmsg.
servicesservice-managervagrantlinuxinit
purpleidea/mgmt
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the project's utility and reliability. Their contributions included implementing improvements to file copying utilities, adding debugging capabilities and logging to fact initialization structures, refactoring networking components, and integrating UEvent functionalities. Additionally, they added a CPU count fact that provides insights into machine resources. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the system's core functionalities and operational aspects.
golangetcdnext-generationchoreographydevops
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