David Kennedy
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kennedy is an engineering leader with eight years in senior management and a two-decade-plus engineering career spanning Microsoft, GitHub, and now Stripe, where he leads Connect Integrations. He specializes in scaling developer-facing platforms and payments integrations, translating complex product requirements into reliable, production-grade systems. Known for combining deep technical judgment with people leadership, he has progressed from principal engineering management at Microsoft to director-level stewardship at GitHub. Based in Cary, NC, he leverages a strong academic foundation in computer and software engineering from the University of Florida to mentor teams and drive cross-organizational collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a steady executor who balances long-term architectural vision with pragmatic delivery.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (29)
windows10
cicd10
azure-devops10
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
azure10
devops10
microsoft9
vsphere9
agent9
asset-pipeline9
typescript8
electron7
runner7
vscode-extension7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
azureDaveOps/testtags
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
microsoft/azure-pipelines-image-generation
Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
Azure Pipelines VM image generation for Microsoft-hosted CI/CD
Contributions:6 PRs, 1 push, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
azure-pipelinesvm-imagehostedci-cdazure
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