Xu Kevin is a builder and seasoned software engineer with 15+ years designing and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems from Beijing. He has deep hands-on expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and Linux, and has implemented production-grade services and deployment pipelines across roles at JD and Dataman, as well as co-founding a SaaS that handled payments, geolocation and real-time mapping. Proficient in Go, Python, C/C++ and JavaScript, he combines low-level systems work with full-stack product delivery and DevOps automation. An active contributor to open-source control-plane tooling (notably work on a Docker swarmkit-based project), he often shapes project skeletons, APIs and service lifecycle logic. Practical and product-minded, he blends engineering craft with startup pragmatism to ship resilient, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor CS, bachelor CS at Dalian Nationalities University
Yet another control plane based on docker built-in swarmkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:245 commits, 18 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Xu's commits primarily focus on setting up the project skeleton and adding necessary libraries, like `goclient` and `go-dockercompose`, indicating a back-end development role. The user also added a logger and implemented API skeletons, showing an understanding of project structure and core functionalities. Furthermore, the changes in `service.go` reflect the development of functionalities related to managing and creating docker services, further emphasizing a back-end focus within this Docker-based control plane project.
Contributions:70 releases, 21 PRs, 119 pushes in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.