Kurtis Nusbaum
Senior Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKurtis Nusbaum is a Senior Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building highly available, large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems, currently leading platform engineering at Palo Alto Networks. His background spans production roles at Chronosphere, Uber, and Facebook, where he worked on cloud control planes, server fleet orchestration, mobile and backend services, and integration with systems like Kubernetes and SPIFFE. He brings deep expertise in parallel computing and low-level provisioning (PXE/IPMI) informed by research work at Sandia and UIUC and contributions to Trilinos (Optika and Tpetra). A pragmatic engineer and occasional founder, he also built the UDJ social music player and improved test automation and memory-checking for niche OSS projects like a LOLCODE interpreter, showing a breadth from research-grade HPC to hands-on QA tooling.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelors of Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelors of Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Mathematics at Saint John's University
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Github Skills (19)
python10
testing10
cmake10
c1110
interpreter10
c1710
android10
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android-intent9
java9
android-fragments9
sqlite9
valgrind9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
justinmeza/lci
May 2011 - May 2011
A LOLCODE interpreter written in C.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Kurtis focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the LOLCODE interpreter. They refactored the test driver, added features for input and output file handling, and integrated memory leak detection using Valgrind. Furthermore, the user modified the CMake build system to incorporate testing and memory check capabilities. These changes collectively improved the robustness and thoroughness of the tests performed on the LOLCODE interpreter.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterlolcodec
klnusbaum/dotfiles
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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