Summary
Ian Kenley is a Software Architect with 11 years of experience designing and shipping data-intensive SaaS products, currently leading architecture for SocialScape at Socially Determined. He blends full-stack development across .NET, Scala, Python, and Node/TypeScript with deep cloud and data engineering expertise—leading AWS migrations, multi-account hosting, and event-driven pipelines using Databricks, Spark, S3, PostgreSQL, EventBridge, and Lambda. Ian excels at translating ambiguous product needs into coherent technical architectures while keeping teams small and effective, embracing the Mythical Man-Month philosophy. His background spans both startups and large organizations (Mastercard, Advisory Board) where he’s routinely balanced hands-on engineering with technical leadership. A practical generalist, he favors fitting tools to problems and has a knack for turning complex public-health and healthcare data challenges into operational SaaS capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science & Economics, Bachelors, Computer Science & Economics at The George Washington University