Rene Kjellerup
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolRene Kjellerup is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience spanning systems engineering, backend development, and cloud integrations. Based in Riverside, CA, he blends deep low-level skills in C/C++ and Python with practical ops experience—automation, monitoring (Nagios, HP OpenView), and LAMP-stack web development—from early personal projects through roles at Nuance and Microsoft. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Apache Libcloud, where he improved libvirt driver resiliency and test quality, reflecting a strong focus on maintainable, well-tested code. Comfortable across servers, virtualization, and graphics APIs (Vulkan/OpenGL learning), Rene is equally at home writing Bash/Python automation or refactoring drivers for cloud platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge development and operations, born from a lifetime of learning on his own machines.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (6)
libvirt10
cloud-computing10
python10
testing9
arp9
back-end-development9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Rene primarily contributed to the `libvirt_driver.py` file, enhancing the driver's ability to interact with virtualization environments. Their work included adding checks for ARP cache availability, implementing fallback mechanisms using `ip neigh`, and refactoring the `_parse_arp_table` function for improved clarity and maintainability. The user also addressed linting errors, documentation, and test case fixes, demonstrating a focus on code quality and testing.
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Katana-Steel/ScoreSys
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:96 commits, 4 PRs, 86 pushes in 3 years
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