Kevin Walter
Software Developer at SUSE
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarKevin Walter is a software developer based in Nuremberg with 12 years of experience building and maintaining backend systems and contributing to front-end component libraries. At SUSE and across open-source projects he focuses on pragmatic refactoring, code-quality improvements, and backend integrations—work that spans JVM-based systems, Rust GPU tooling, and infrastructure projects like Harvester and Uyuni. He has hands-on experience removing and reworking authentication and user-management layers in HCI software, automating token deployment in systems management, and improving usability through backend-driven UI changes. Contributions to notable repos such as gfx-rs (low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API) and scalajs-react show comfort with both systems-level code and UI styling details. Known for methodical maintenance work—updating dependencies, fixing warnings, and streamlining APIs—he brings reliability and long-term maintainability to complex codebases.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (37)
startup10
back-end-development10
harvest10
java10
scala10
jumpstart10
javas10
go10
saltstack10
f10
har10
kickstarter10
functional-programming10
rust10
functional-programming-language10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
uyuni-project/uyuni
May 2015 - Jan 2023
Source code for Uyuni
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:275 reviews, 1359 commits, 150 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily focused on adding and refining the systems management features within the Uyuni project. This included modifying and adding new features within the Salt API service using Java. The user also implemented the deployment of the new token with automation to the minions and added the new code in existing files which include file and sql schema changes. The user also added and modified the code for different tasks for handling events within the management system.
spring-bootpythonuyunisuse-managerlinux
harvester/harvester
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on refactoring and removing code related to authentication and user management within the Harvester HCI project. This included the removal of the Kubernetes authentication mode, the Rancher user, and related types and code. Furthermore, the user modified generated files, suggesting an understanding of code generation processes within the project. Their contributions involved modifying core API components and controller setups.
sdnvirtualizationhybrid-cloudvmscitrix
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