Ken Ahrens
Co-Founder, CEO at Speedscale
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKen Ahrens is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building observability and cloud-native tooling to help teams ship reliable, performant software. As Co-Founder and CEO of Speedscale, he focuses on creating realistic, high-fidelity non-production environments that let teams catch issues before they reach production. Previously he led and scaled solution architect organizations at New Relic, translating complex enterprise observability needs into repeatable best practices. His background spans presales, solutions architecture, and hands-on engineering from early-career systems work to driving revenue and team growth after acquisitions. Based in Atlanta with a BS in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, Ken pairs strategic product vision with practical operational experience in performance and application delivery. A recurring theme in his career is turning customer-facing technical insights into platform-level products that reduce costly production firefighting.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (98)
authentication10
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google-cloud10
javascript10
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api10
alerts10
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nodejs10
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open-source10
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Github contributions (5)
kenahrens/nr-synthetics-plugin
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
Query New Relic Synthetics and publish new metrics as Plugin
Contributions:10 releases, 39 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 1 month
publishquerysyntheticsmetricsnew-relic
kenahrens/nodetest2
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:109 commits, 1 PR, 111 pushes in 3 years 4 months
demo-appexpressjsexpress-mongodbexpressnodejs-express
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