Stu Kilgore
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolStu Kilgore is a systems engineer based in Austin, Texas with nine years of hands-on software engineering experience across startups and mid-size tech firms. He’s contributed to notable open-source work on dbt-core, improving macro dependency handling and change detection in a project widely used by data teams. His career spans backend and systems roles at dbt Labs, FloQast, Silvercar and now Cloudflare, reflecting a move from application engineering to infrastructure-focused systems work. Stu pairs practical Python and SQL expertise with a background in full-stack development from Austin Coding Academy, giving him the ability to bridge data, backend, and operational concerns. He’s comfortable in both collaborative product teams and open-source communities, often fixing subtle bugs that improve developer workflows. Outside core engineering, his early experience teaching and freelance work suggests a knack for mentoring and making technical concepts approachable.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Austin Coding AcademyUniversity of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (13)
data-modeling10
python10
analytics10
data-engineering9
business-intelligence9
sql9
componets6
javascript-objects6
javascript6
forloop6
angular6
redux6
ecmascript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/dbt-core
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:200 reviews, 22 commits, 119 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Stu primarily contributed to dbt-core by fixing bugs related to macro modifications and state selection. Their work involved modifications to Python code and SQL, specifically in the `test_graph_selector_methods.py` and `graph/selector_methods.py` files. The user implemented enhancements to how dbt handles macro dependencies and how changes are detected in the project's state.
analyticsdbt-viewpointtransformanalystssql
stuartkilgore/dotfiles
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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