Kevin Mitchell
Senior Software Engineer at T-Mobile
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Mitchell is a Senior Software Engineer with 30 years of experience building and maintaining robust infrastructure and security-focused systems, currently working on Go, Terraform, AWS integrations, and GitLab runners at T-Mobile. He has deep roots in C and Python development and long-term stewardship of critical open-source projects—most notably as co-maintainer of Undernet's ircu and contributions to MIT Kerberos (krb5) and the GitLab Go SDK. His background includes significant OpenStack work as a Nova reviewer and authoring tooling for bare-metal deployment and cloud hardware discovery at Cisco and Rackspace. Comfortable across low-level systems, build/release pipelines, and Linux administration, he also mentors engineers and helps projects move from patches to production-grade releases. Based in Jacksonville, FL, he blends decades of hands-on maintenance experience with a pragmatic approach to tooling and automation, often surfacing subtle cross-platform portability and compilation fixes that keep long-lived systems reliable.
29 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (13)
c1710
gssapi10
authentication10
protocols10
go10
api10
c1110
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
kerberos10
auth10
security9
sdk9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
krb5/krb5
Jun 1996 - Jun 1997
mirror of MIT krb5 repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on modifying and improving the Kerberos authentication system. Their work included updating GSSAPI functions, fixing bugs in FTP daemon authentication, and adding support for delegated credentials. They also addressed issues related to compilation and conditional compilation directives for different platforms, and corrected a message.
krb5mitlinuxwindows
xanzy/go-gitlab
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
GitLab Go SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `group_hooks.go` file, updating and modifying functionalities related to group hooks within the GitLab Go SDK. Their changes involved updates to existing functions like `GetGroupHook` and `EditGroupHook`, as well as adjustments to documentation. The user also made modifications to the function `DeleteGroupHook`. These updates reflect the user's work on the backend API interactions.
golanggitlab-cigitlab-apigitlabsdk
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