Dave Kennedy
Senior Software Engineer at General Motors
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Kennedy is a senior software engineer and technical lead with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, high-throughput systems for companies like Expedia, Global Relay, and now General Motors. He blends hands-on architecture and coding with strong DevOps practices, particularly around AWS and serverless technologies, and has personal experience handling billions of requests and petabytes of data using messaging systems such as AmazonMQ and SQS. At Expedia he led data-plane services, helped migrate systems to cloud, and used Spark and Python for large-scale commission processing and traffic analysis, often tuning JVMs and rewriting key algorithms to improve resilience. He has a PhD in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, a background across languages from C++ to Python, and a track record of introducing pragmatic testing and continuous delivery practices that teams adopt organization-wide. Known for being an all-rounder, he comfortably moves between low-level performance work and high-level platform design, and he’s equally comfortable leading tiger teams to diagnose critical incidents as mentoring engineers on career progression.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, PhD Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis at University of LiverpoolBSc Computer Studies, BSc Computer Studies at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (10)
atlassian-crowd7
atlassian6
api4
omniauth4
crowd4
rest-api3
rest3
windows1
opengl1
opengl-framework1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davepkennedy/Quake
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 4 pushes in 6 days
davepkennedy/davepkennedy.github.com
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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