Ken Hamric
CEO Founder at Tracetest
Collierville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Hamric is a seasoned founder and software leader with 30+ years building SaaS B2B products, having founded two successful startups and led one to acquisition by SmartBear in 2016. He combines hands-on technical direction with product and operational leadership, running cross-functional teams that span engineering, product, ops, support and even sales when needed. Most recently he launched Tracetest.io to turn OpenTelemetry traces into easy end-to-end tests, reflecting a focus on developer productivity and observability. Ken has scaled teams globally—establishing engineering centers in Poland—and driven meaningful revenue growth while still maintaining a maker’s mindset. Based in Collierville, Tennessee, he pairs an M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with practical startup grit and a track record of turning ideas into profitable, acquirable businesses.
5 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Memphis
Github Skills (25)
testing10
opentelemetry10
microservices10
api-testing10
integration-testing10
otel9
prometheus8
opentelemetry-go8
jaeger8
opentelemetry-collector8
jepsen7
distributed-tracing7
operator7
opentelemetry-rust6
distributed-testing5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kdhamric/ticketing
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:15 PRs, 40 pushes, 7 branches in 4 days
kdhamric/pricingtest
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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