Ken Cochrane
Head Of Engineering at Akuity
Maine, United States
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Top SchoolKen Cochrane is a veteran engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams and reliable software platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Akuity in Maine. He was an early founding engineer and manager at Docker, where he designed core web services and contributed to infrastructure, release and packaging automation for projects like Moby and LinuxKit. At WEX he led 100+ engineers across SRE, architecture, and developer experience, chairing standards and architecture review boards while driving cloud and DevOps transformations. Ken combines hands-on expertise in backend, DevOps and security (notably contributions to django-defender and django-axes) with strong product and operational judgment—budgeting, vendor selection, and build-vs-buy decisions. He authored the Docker Cookbook (2nd ed.), reflecting a knack for clear technical communication and practical guidance. Based in Maine and grounded in a computer engineering degree from the University of Maine, he blends entrepreneurial roots with enterprise-scale delivery.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Maine
English
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Github Skills (50)
apim10
cron10
container10
docker10
redis10
python10
scripting10
django10
testing10
packaging10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
virtual-machine10
dockers10
cicd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-defender
Sep 2014 - Nov 2022
A simple super fast django reusable app that blocks people from brute forcing login attempts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 32 reviews, 134 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to the `django-defender` repository, a Django app designed to block brute-force login attempts. Their work included the initial setup and implementation of core features like decorators, middleware, and the core logic for blocking users. The user also refactored code, added unit tests and integrated with Celery. Further contributions focused on improving the security aspects by adding features such as the ability to block by username and IP.
super-fastpythondjango-frameworkdjangopython3
moby/moby
Mar 2013 - Jun 2016
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:94 commits, 19 PRs, 212 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily focused on infrastructure and build system modifications within the Moby project. They removed the email field from the docker login process and updated the release script. The user also made packaging changes to include containerd binaries, and addressed issues within the install script and get.docker.com install script. These changes involved scripting, build configuration and release processes.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
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