Ken Faulkner
Senior Software Engineer at Bhive
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Faulkner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with over 16 years of experience building and operating scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure. He specializes in Azure IaaS/PaaS, CI/CD automation, and cross-cloud blob storage — responsible for creating and maintaining Bhive’s infrastructure and dynamic IaC pipelines. A polyglot developer comfortable in Go, C#, Python and low-level languages, he blends deep systems and performance optimization skills from embedded and high-volume web platforms. Ken is an active open-source contributor — notably to the Azure SDK for Go and the widely used AzureCopy tool for mass cloud data migrations — and builds Grafana datasources to extend observability. He excels at turning operational pain points into tooling (including Slackbots and DevOps utilities) that make production reliability repeatable. His background spans startups to Microsoft enterprise projects, giving him both hands-on engineering chops and long-term platform design experience.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Computer Science., Computing, Computer Science. at University of Tasmania
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Github Skills (13)
golang10
unit-testing10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
sdk10
azure-sdk10
rest9
mono6
channel6
azure-web-app-service6
azure-application-insights6
azure-cosmos-db6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-go
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Go. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 114 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ken contributed extensively to the Azure SDK for Go, focusing on implementing and testing blob lease functionality. Their work included adding the ability to acquire, renew, change, release, and break blob leases. They refactored code, added unit tests to ensure functionality, and addressed feedback regarding code style.
golangsdkconsumersazure-sdkrest
kpfaulkner/gologmine
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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