Andrew Kennedy
Senior Software Engineer at Cloudsoft
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Kennedy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with 15 years’ experience building enterprise Java and distributed systems, blending hands-on backend development with deep security expertise. He has driven middleware, cloud and PaaS work at Cloudsoft (including contributions to Brooklyn and jclouds) and is an Apache Qpid committer who has worked on core distributed ledger pieces in Sawtooth. Comfortable across JEE stacks, messaging, ESBs and container/cloud integrations, he pairs systems design and architecture skills with practical penetration testing, risk assessment and security architecture. Andrew is seeking to grow into technical leadership and higher-level architecture roles while continuing to contribute code to open-source infrastructure projects. A not-obvious strength is his long history of bank-grade security engineering and auditing early in his career, which informs his pragmatic approach to secure, resilient system design.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (34)
docker10
apidoc10
distributed-ledger-technology10
dockers10
java10
hyperledger-sawtooth10
distributed-ledger10
javas10
api10
blockchain10
hyperledger10
cloud-computing9
cassandra9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jclouds/jclouds
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
Read-only mirror of ASF Git Repo for jclouds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Docker-related components of the jclouds project. Their work focused on improving the Docker integration, addressing issues in container conversion, and adding new features like setting hostname, environment variables, and port bindings. The user also made fixes and enhancements to the Softlayer template options. These contributions demonstrate a focus on cloud provider integrations.
jclouds
hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-core
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Core repository for Sawtooth Distributed Ledger
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 19 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the core Sawtooth Distributed Ledger project, focusing on back-end functionalities. They added and modified features related to signing algorithms and transaction processing. The user also updated the validator code to handle new client requests and exported protobuf messages, showcasing their work in improving the core functionalities of the system.
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