Kevin Israel
Senior Software Engineer II at Axon
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Israel is a Senior Software Engineer II with 15 years of experience building and optimizing backend systems across large tech and finance companies, currently working at Axon in Colorado. He has a strong history at Microsoft and S&P Global, shipping reliable services and improving installer, database, and JSON handling code in long-lived projects. An active open-source contributor, Kevin has contributed performance and bug fixes to the widely used MediaWiki project that powers Wikipedia, demonstrating attention to detail in PHP internals and cross-version compatibility. A quick learner who enjoys applying familiar skills to new problems, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for untangling legacy code and improving developer tooling.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at South Dakota Mines
English
Github Skills (6)
json10
mediawiki10
php10
database-management9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Apr 2012 - Jan 2023
đ» The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:366 commits in 10 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing and optimizing the PHP-based code of the MediaWiki project. They focused on improving the JSON encoding and decoding functionalities within the `FormatJson` class, including fixing bugs and optimizing performance for specific PHP versions. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the installer script, resolving issues related to auto-subscriptions and deprecated features within the framework. They also improved database-related functions and addressed several typos in comments.
collaborative-editingmediawikiphpwikiwikipedia
plstand/ki-dotfiles
Feb 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 9 pushes, 16 tags in 5 years 8 months
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