Ken Koontz
Head Of Engineering at Squadformers
California, United States
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Top SchoolKen Koontz is a seasoned software engineering leader, currently Head of Engineering at Squadformers, where he guides high-performing squads to deliver quality software. With 14 years of experience, he previously founded and led Benchmark Intelligence, growing an MVP into a product serving 1,000+ brick-and-mortar locations across 50+ enterprise customers and helping raise over $500k in venture funding. His career spans leadership and hands-on roles at Bitwise Technology Consulting, Six Degrees Software, Dynata, Critical Mix, and Decipher, where he defined software processes, scaled teams, and built enterprise tools such as a survey engine and audit system. A US Navy veteran with aircrew survival leadership, he values tight-knit teamwork and thrives under pressure, applying pragmatism and idealism to craft practical, auditable solutions. Based in California and a graduate of California State University, Fresno, he is passionate about productivity, automation, and blockchain software, always pursuing growth for himself and his teams.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Bachelor's in Computer Science at California State University-FresnoGeneral Education, General Education at West Hills College Lemoore
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Github Skills (88)
web-vitals9
mongodb8
nodejs8
javascript7
mongo7
devtools7
sourcemaps7
zenhub7
modeling7
react7
jquery6
beautifier6
angular6
replay6
feature-flags6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
usebenchmark/benchmark-places
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:21 PRs, 37 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
usebenchmark/benchmark-api
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:28 PRs, 33 pushes, 29 branches in 9 months
apicommunicateapi-sjavascriptbenchmark
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