Summary
Ken Iovino is a senior software engineer with over two decades of experience designing and operating backend platforms that power high-traffic sites, currently leading platform initiatives at Fora. He specializes in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm), observability with Honeycomb, and automated CI/CD across multi-tenant environments, combining hands-on debugging with long-term architectural thinking. Ken has a strong PHP and Go background and routinely builds extensible tools that improve developer experience, performance, and reliability for large-scale data pipelines and A/B testing workflows. Based in Orlando, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship and a focus on testability and maintainability, and outside work he channels his systems thinking into hobby game development in C++. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate low-level system insights into product-aligned platform improvements that reduce operational toil.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Valencia College