Chris Kenst
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kenst is a Quality Engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on and management experience building test teams, embedding pragmatic quality practices into agile workflows, and shipping reliable software across startups and enterprises. As a QA Manager at FreightPOP and former Director of QA/Technology Services at AI-driven STELLA, he has led migrations, scaled testing for large customer deployments, and driven measurable operational savings while keeping zero churn. He founded and contributes to community projects like TestingConferences and publishes the Shattered Illusions newsletter, reflecting a commitment to systems thinking and practical testing beyond corporate walls. Known for moving between IC and management roles deliberately, he keeps technical skills sharp while mentoring teams and designing strategies that favor business reality over buzzwords. His work rebuilding documentation, OpenAPI specs, SDKs, and demo apps shows he pairs leadership with concrete developer-focused delivery.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Business Administration (Computer Information Systems), Bachelors of Science Business Administration (Computer Information Systems) at San Francisco State University, Lam Family College of BusinessUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
jekyll10
liquid9
version-control6
webdriverio6
docker6
user-interface6
issue-tracking6
jira6
spectron6
terminology6
bugtracking6
testing6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ckenst/ama
Feb 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 push, 14 comments, 9 issues in 5 years 8 months
reactnextjsholmanask
ckenst/wdio.js
Aug 2019 - Jan 2024
Front-end GUI automation written using JavaScript, Mocha, Chai and WDIO
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 6 months
mocha-chaijavascriptguimochaautomation
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