Ken Decanio
Principal at 41monkeys
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen 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.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
rails-engines5
rails4
stripe4
cms3
ruby3
ruby-on-rails3
heroku2
stock2
content-management-system2
css1
gherkin1
lightbox1
bdd1
salesforce1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
justthisguy/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Aug 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
sfwg/sfwg.github.io
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 11 PRs, 6 pushes in 10 months
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