Ken Hunt
Chief Technology Officer at Growers Edge
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Hunt is a veteran technology leader and CTO with 30+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering software across defense, telecom, and agricultural fintech sectors. He combines deep engineering chops in languages from C++ and Java to Python and JavaScript with practical leadership gained running startups and large engineering teams. Ken has built systems spanning desktop, mobile, cloud-native microservices, GIS/mapping platforms, real-time communications, and 3D simulation—often architecting distributed, fault-tolerant solutions for high-data environments. At Agcor and now Growers Edge he’s applied ML and AI agents to water risk and ag-centric fintech problems, shipping the first sector-focused AI chat service announced in 2025. Comfortable in both proposal writing and day-to-day coding, he bridges product, operations, and customer-facing roles to turn complex domain requirements into deployable systems. Based in Alabama, he brings an uncommon blend of defense-grade simulation experience and modern cloud/AI product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
Hueytown High SchoolBEE, Electrical Engineering, BEE, Electrical Engineering at Auburn University
Github Skills (52)
swift8
ios8
objective-c7
rest7
parsing7
sdk7
api7
macos7
rest-api7
cocoapods6
api-documentation6
xcode6
swagger6
openapi5
nodejs5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
respoke/AndroidAsync
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
socketasynchronoussocket-ioclient-serverhttp-client
AQUAOSOTech/node-beanstalkd-worker
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
High level library for running beanstalkd workers in Node.js
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
node-jshigh-levelworkersnodejsbeanstalkd
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