Daniel Kennedy
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Kennedy is a Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience building production systems across AWS, Meta, and Workday, currently working on EKS-related services at Amazon Web Services in San Francisco. A Cal Poly SLO computer science graduate, he has a strong full-stack background demonstrated by internships and roles that spanned Angular front-ends, Scala and Java back-ends, and deployment automation using Docker, Jenkins, and AWS. He consistently moves between developer-facing tooling and scalable cloud infrastructure, having created dashboards and APIs to simplify other engineers’ workflows. Comfortable in fast-paced enterprise and hyperscale environments, he brings hands-on experience with distributed systems, cloud-native deployments, and developer productivity. Outside work he channels curiosity into personal software projects, snowboarding, and music festivals—reflecting a pragmatic engineer who values both craft and culture.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (26)
authenticate10
aws10
credentials10
auth10
music-streaming9
kubernetes9
security9
amazon-web-services9
kubernetes-cluster9
amazon9
music9
encryption8
aws-cloudformation8
amazon-eks8
identity8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DanielCKennedy/playallaudio
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Music streaming aggregation website created using React and Material UI
Contributions:78 commits, 12 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reactaggregationstreamingmusic-streamingmaterial-ui
DanielCKennedy/aws-iam-authenticator
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster
Contributions:5 pushes, 16 branches in 9 months
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