Kevin Quick
Software Engineer at Galois, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Quick is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in operating systems, virtualization, networking, distributed systems, and software verification. Based in Portland, Oregon, he currently applies deep systems expertise at Galois, Inc. after senior engineering roles at GoDaddy, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster. He is the author of the Thespian Python Actor system and was a core member of Project UDI, signaling a long-standing commitment to practical open-source tooling for concurrent and distributed programming. Kevin combines low-level systems knowledge with production-scale service experience, able to bridge research-grade verification techniques and real-world infrastructure needs. Colleagues rely on him for building robust, auditable systems and for translating complex distributed designs into maintainable implementations.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (54)
python10
async10
io-uring10
multicore10
linux10
distributed-systems10
dub10
fault-tolerance10
actor10
multiprocessing10
scalability10
actor-model10
concurrency10
asyncio9
nix7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thespianpy/Thespian
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Python Actor concurrency library
Contributions:875 commits, 7 PRs, 169 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythonconcurrencydubasyncioconcurrency-library
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