Kevin Saul
Senior Software Developer at NWI
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Saul is a Senior Software Developer with a decade of experience building and leading delivery of business-critical systems for Skipton Building Society while based in Christchurch, NZ. He progressed from analyst programmer to lead developer at NWI, combining hands-on coding with mentoring and cross-border collaboration between NZ and the UK. Kevin focuses on automating complex business processes to create performant, intuitive software and has a track record of pragmatic, reliable implementations. An active contributor to libgit2, he has improved backend stability and added features like OID support and ownership-validation tests—work that touches a widely used open-source Git library. He brings steady, detail-oriented engineering and a preference for solving tricky edge cases that surface in production systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at SIT
English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
version-control10
testing10
libgit2sharp10
git10
libgit210
c-programming10
c1110
configuration-management9
wp-api8
winapi8
ws-api8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/libgit2
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 19 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the libgit2 library's functionality and stability. Their contributions include fixing worktree iteration issues related to repositories without a common directory, optimizing config handling, addressing long custom headers for winhttp transports, and implementing tests for ownership validation. Further work involved adding OID type support and ignoring missing configurations during ownership checks.
version-controlgit-clientlibgit2dvcscross-platform
kcsaul/libgit2
Jul 2021 - Jul 2024
A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.
Contributions:18 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years
macoscross-platform
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