Summary
Ken Decanio is a product-minded technologist and Principal based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building and guiding startups from prototype to production. He combines hands-on Rails and systems architecture chops with product leadership—acting as interim CTO, product owner, and scrum master—to translate customer needs into actionable user stories and durable engineering. Ken has a track record of designing real-time, high-performance systems and leading small engineering teams through rapid iterations, hiring, and re-architecture efforts. He mentors founders and junior engineers, pairing and doing code review to raise team capability, and is comfortable communicating fluently across customers, sales, marketing, design, and execs. Known for pragmatic Lean Startup coaching, he balances technical excellence with relentless focus on delivering customer value.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology