Kevin Song
Graduate Student
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top expert inNeovim Ecosystem and Shell Customization
Kevin Song is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin with 11 years of hands-on experience in research and engineering across high-performance computing, simulation, and DevOps. He has contributed to large-scale parallel systems research at Oak Ridge and built agent-based collaboration simulations and parallel ML/vision code during academic research stints. As an open-source back-end and DevOps contributor to the popular Starship shell prompt, he improved cross-shell initialization, timing instrumentation, and installer robustness—work that illustrates attention to portability and developer ergonomics. Kevin pairs strong quantitative training (dual BS in Applied Mathematics and Chemistry, 3.84 GPA) with practical systems experience, making him effective at turning research ideas into reliable tooling. An unexpected thread through his career is a habit of bridging domain knowledge (from chemistry and fire ecology to computer vision) into computational solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Lynbrook High SchoolBS, Applied Mathematics, 3.84, BS, Applied Mathematics, 3.84 at University of California, Merced
Github Skills (20)
scripting10
command-line-interface10
bash10
prompt10
script10
customisation10
customizing10
command-line10
prompting10
sh10
rust10
shell10
zsh10
cli10
debug9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
starship/starship
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 267 reviews, 58 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the core functionality of the Starship prompt, notably enhancing the initialization process by handling shell paths and implementing a timer module. They modified initialization files across Bash, Zsh, and Fish shells to integrate the new timer module and correctly compute command durations. Additionally, they addressed issues related to whitespace and quoting in the installation script and prompt generation to ensure proper shell behavior across different operating systems.
starshipfish-themedotfileszsh-themeshell
chipbuster/starship
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
☄🌌️ The cross-shell prompt for astronauts.
Contributions:150 pushes, 42 branches in 6 months
shell-promptterminalastronautspromptshell
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