Kurt Landrus
Lead Consultant at Excella
Richland Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurt Landrus is a seasoned lead consultant and senior software engineer with over two decades of experience delivering scalable, secure data-driven applications across finance, healthcare, and SaaS. He specializes in Elixir/Phoenix and Ruby on Rails, having led migrations from Ruby to Elixir for high-throughput banking systems and built cloud-native APIs and tooling at companies like Experian, G2, and Visuwell. Kurt blends deep systems and backend expertise (Kafka, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes) with practical mentoring and leadership, routinely guiding junior engineers and shaping platform design. His academic background as a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering and a long tenure at IBM reflect a strong foundation in engineering rigor that complements his hands-on product work. Known for shipping measurable features—like new scheduling UIs, Devise-based auth flows, and data-description languages—he values continuous learning and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Based in Pennsylvania, he brings a rare mix of legacy systems experience and modern functional-language proficiency to complex, production-scale problems.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Purdue UniversityPhD candidate - ABD, Computer Engineering, 4.0, PhD candidate - ABD, Computer Engineering, 4.0 at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (4)
symmetric1
encryption1
cryptography1
elixir1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
koctya/dotfiles
Aug 2011 - Mar 2022
Contributions:48 commits in 10 years 9 months
koctya/ujs_blog
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 commits in 2 years 6 months
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