Kirk Lund
Software Architect at Wordly
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKirk Lund is a seasoned software architect and engineer with over two decades of experience designing and hardening distributed systems, currently shaping observability and telemetry strategy at Wordly from Portland, OR. He pairs hands-on backend development with technical leadership, having driven GemFire/Apache Geode engineering at Pivotal, VMware, and Oracle and now guiding cross-team instrumentation and low-risk rollouts. An Apache Geode committer and PMC member who has modernized core logging and test automation, Kirk brings deep expertise in reliability, maintainability, and test coverage for large-scale Java platforms. He excels at incremental, pragmatic improvements—refactoring, consistent instrumentation, and thorough testing—to align systems with business goals. Beyond product work, his long-term stewardship of open-source logging infrastructure signals a rare mix of operational focus and community leadership.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematics Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics Computer Science at Wayne State College
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Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
javas10
logging10
geode10
log4j10
java10
test-automation10
jmx7
gemfire6
apache6
jar6
regex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:745 reviews, 978 commits, 988 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Kirk contributed to cleanup and modernization of logging features within the Apache Geode project. Their work involved refactoring, renaming, and testing various logging components, indicating a focus on system reliability and maintainability. The user's modifications extended to custom appenders and core logging libraries, suggesting deep familiarity with the project's logging infrastructure and significant contributions in maintaining and improving test coverage.
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kirklund/geode
May 2016 - Jun 2022
Mirror of Apache Geode
Contributions:1743 pushes, 1195 branches in 6 years 1 month
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