Kevin Nelson
Senior Software Engineer, Azure For Operators
Plano, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Nelson is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years focused on Linux systems, telecom core (vMME/vSSF) and cloud-native deployments for operators, currently at Microsoft Azure for Operators. He built and maintains optimized BASE OS layers, automated complex build and deployment pipelines, and has driven SR-IOV, KVM, and Azure/Nexus integrations that materially increased performance and reduced operational costs. Deep kernel-level expertise (TIPC, SCTP patches) and networking know-how let him debug elusive stability issues and scale LTE/5G mobility components for real customers. Kevin blends systems programming in C/C++ and Go with pragmatic automation (Python, bash) to turn manual processes into repeatable pipelines and fast VM images. An active open-source contributor, he maintains systemd/systemd-shim patches and published TACACS+ NSS changes used across his products. Colleagues rely on him as the on-site Linux expert who bridges OS internals, telecom protocols, and cloud operator tooling.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (18)
testing9
linux9
automation-framework9
azure9
api8
cloudtesting8
sdk8
e2e-testing8
restful-api7
api-client7
generator7
rest7
rest-api7
openapi6
rest-client6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
knelsonmeister/systemd-shim
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
systemd-shim for MX Linux
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
linuxsystemd
knelsonmeister/systemd
Aug 2019 - Mar 2021
systemd with systemd-shim support for MX Linux
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
linuxsystemd
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