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Porter Nelson
Backend/full-stack software engineer. I build enterprise grade, distributed systems — rewriting legacy services, migrating billions of records, and scaling infrastructure to 99.99% uptime.
Go · Distributed Systems · Agentic Workflows
2M+ LOC legacy rewrite framework · billions of records migrated
00Highlights
2M+ LOC
legacy app migrating onto a Go rewrite framework I designed
Billions
of records migrated into Cassandra
99.99%
uptime SLA supported across enterprise services
Days → min
QA turnaround via an agentic diff-to-test-execution workflow
01Experience
View full experience →DigiCert Inc
02Featured Projects
View all projects →go_search (Distributed Web Crawler & Search Engine)
A distributed web crawler and indexer running on Kubernetes — Go crawlers publish pages to Kafka, a Python indexer consumes and writes to Elasticsearch for full-text search.
AI-Powered Marketing Campaign Platform
An end-to-end AI-assisted marketing platform built for a startup founder, replacing the need for an external marketing agency.
03Off the Clock
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Jun 2026 · Gettysburg, PA
Quick east coast wedding trip. Visited Washington D.C. and Gettysburg. We were too tired to go to New York :(
Zion National Park
May 2026 · Zion National Park, UT
Stayed in Zion Ponderosa. Hiked and hunted scorpions.
Washington, D.C.
Sep 2025 · Washington, D.C.
First time visiting Washington D.C. in the summer!
04GitHub Activity
05Skills
06Contact
Reach out at porter.nelson.dev@outlook.com or find me on GitHub.