Ken Denson
Climate Justice Activist-Strategist
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Denson is a seasoned technologist turned climate justice activist-strategist with nearly 40 years of hands-on experience in computing, networking, and embedded systems and 13 years of focused corporate IT and capacity planning roles. He has designed and shipped core TCP/IP stack code, led software architecture for high-throughput network platforms, and managed global network capacity and managed hosting operations for major providers. Now based in Chicago, he applies that systems-level thinking to educate and mobilize communities around the social justice dimensions of the climate crisis, translating technical rigor into practical advocacy. Notably, his career blends deep lab-focused instrumentation work from the 1980s with large-scale commercial network engineering, giving him a rare perspective that bridges scientific research tooling and internet-scale operations.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Admitted to Candicacy Ph.D. (degree not received), Analytical Chemistry, Admitted to Candicacy Ph.D. (degree not received), Analytical Chemistry at Indiana University BloomingtonA.B., Chemistry, A.B., Chemistry at Occidental College
Github Skills (55)
microbiome10
integer10
theory9
ecology9
simultaneous9
bioinformatics9
entropy9
modeling8
spring8
partitioning8
python7
data-sharing6
evolution5
distributions5
modeling-tool5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Rush-Quality-Analytics/Reopen-Services
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Source code for an app to guide the reopening of hospital services
Contributions:103 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 months
flutterhospital-serviceshospitalandroid
LennonLab/residence-time
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
code and figures for a residence time modeling project
Contributions:43 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
modelingpythonfigures
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