Kayden Althen
Lead Software Engineer at Adobe
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKayden Althen is a Lead Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, automated developer workflows and resilient microservice platforms. At Adobe he progressed from engineer to lead, architecting a Go/gRPC/Kubernetes packaging system that cut execution time from 35 to 5 minutes and creating GitHub/Slack automation to streamline PR queues. He blends DevOps, security leadership, and CI/CD expertise—having run environment provisioning with Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS while serving as security lead for Adobe Commerce. A former instructor at UT Austin’s coding boot camp, he also brings strong mentorship and teaching skills that help teams adopt best practices. His background spans test automation, container platforms, and full-stack development, reflecting a practical obsession with automation that measurably reduces developer toil.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree International Relations / Religion, Bachelor's Degree International Relations / Religion at Bucknell UniversityMaster's Degree South Asian Languages Literatures and Linguistics, Master's Degree South Asian Languages Literatures and Linguistics at The University of Texas at AustinSoftware Engineering Program, Software Engineering Program at Hack ReactorWebmaster Certificate Program Computer Programming, Webmaster Certificate Program Computer Programming at Austin Community College
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Github contributions (5)
sharkySharks/texas-state-park-auto-reserve
Oct 2020 - Mar 2024
Automate Texas Park Reservations using Selenium Webdriver
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 5 months
web-automationtexasreservationsselenium-webdriverpark
sharkySharks/pwa-studio
Jan 2019 - Feb 2025
🛠Development tools to build, optimize and deploy Progressive Web Applications for Magento 2.
Contributions:64 PRs, 226 pushes, 123 branches in 6 years 2 months
development-toolsweb-applicationsmagento-2magento2progressive
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