Summary
Andrew Kenney is a hands-on technology executive and CTO with 12+ years building high-performance engineering and data teams that ship massively scalable systems for high-growth companies. He has led platform and DevOps-driven organizations at Clasp (formerly Stride Funding), Klaviyo, Acquia and Fairmarkit, architecting systems that handled peak events like Black Friday, the State of the Union and the Olympics. Andrew combines product-minded leadership with deep operational experience across cloud, data and real-time event processing, scaling teams 6x and platforms to billions of daily events. He’s equally comfortable shipping code, running experiments end-to-end with data scientists, and having sales-facing conversations to keep engineering grounded in customer empathy. Notably, he has built multi-tenant PaaS and marketplace systems that integrate with enterprise ERPs and compliance regimes (HIPAA/PCI/FedRAMP), demonstrating rare cross-domain expertise. Based in Boston, he thrives on hiring, mentoring and turning ambitious, mission-driven ideas into reliable production systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Information Sciences, BS, Management Information Sciences at University of Oklahoma