Charlie Kenney
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Isovalent
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Kenney is a Software Engineering Technical Leader with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tools from NYC. He has led teams at Equinix and Isovalent designing scalable services and vendor integrations for bare-metal fleets and storage appliances, and previously built Kubernetes-as-a-Service and SDKs for Linode. Charlie pairs hands-on engineering — from OS build automation and provisioning to SAML/OAuth integrations — with strong OSS documentation contributions to projects like Salt, improving usability for cloud integrations. Known for tackling complex vendor APIs and telemetry challenges, he excels at translating operational needs into reliable, high-availability systems. An early programmer and active open-source contributor, he brings practical engineering depth and a knack for clarifying difficult technical workflows.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certification Fullstack Web Development, Certification Fullstack Web Development at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
manage10
cloud-manager10
documentation10
infrastructure-as-code9
pip6
homebrew6
ios6
nodejs6
macos6
javascript6
leaf6
python5
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily focused on enhancing the documentation for the `saltstack/salt` repository, which involves infrastructure automation and cloud management. The user's contributions include excluding class members from documentation, fixing typos in documentation files, and adding comprehensive documentation, including configuration options and migration guides. These additions provide clearer instructions for users and developers, specifically related to the Linode cloud integration, improving usability.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
0xch4z/cdn-fetch
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
A mac status bar app to make fetching assets quick and simple.
Contributions:1 release, 42 commits, 16 pushes in 1 month
cocoamacswift
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