Ed Kennard
UX Director & Founder at Vividlab
Balearic Islands, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorEd Kennard is a versatile UX director and founder with 13+ years of software engineering experience and a career stretching back to the late 1990s across Sydney, Hong Kong, Paris, London and the Balearic Islands. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—from Scala, Java and C# backends to Angular/TypeScript front ends—with product- and design-led leadership at Topaz Technology and longstanding freelance work for major media and entertainment clients. His background includes building real‑time trading systems, eCommerce platforms and large multilingual websites at firms like Trafigura and Intel, showing a knack for high‑performance, mission‑critical systems as well as polished UX. Comfortable with cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure) and modern APIs (gRPC, OpenAPI), he pairs deep technical fluency with creative tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Not immediately obvious: he has sustained both entrepreneurial and enterprise careers in parallel for decades, delivering commercial projects for household media brands while running boutique tech ventures.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (40)
tracks10
rekordbox10
points9
chart-fx9
health8
javafx8
authentication8
rates8
million8
reconnection8
histogram8
scatter-plot7
identity7
saml7
complement7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
edkennard/topaz-docker
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Docker configuration for Topaz CTRM
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
docker-imagedockertopaz
edkennard/jfx
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024
https://openjdk.java.net/projects/openjfx/
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
openjdk-javaopenjfxopenjdkjavajava-net
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