Ken Jenkins
Senior Consultant at Jenkins and Associates, CPAs
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolKen Jenkins is a seasoned Senior Consultant with over 6 years of hands-on engineering experience and a two-decade history in systems, networking, and IT infrastructure across government, healthcare, and private sectors. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he has led network redesigns, data center and consolidation projects, and guided migrations and equipment upgrades as a project lead and solutions engineer. Ken blends systems-level troubleshooting on Unix/Linux platforms and RedHat with practical sales-engineering and pre/post-sales support, driving multimillion-dollar growth in channel partnerships. He also contributes to high-profile open-source security work—adding TLS/session-resumption controls and client-cert validation handling to the Envoy proxy—demonstrating a mindful approach to secure, high-performance networking. Comfortable presenting technical strategies to executives and implementing the hands-on work, he bridges business, ops, and engineering to deliver cost-saving, resilient solutions. Ken holds a BBA in Information Systems from Howard University and frequently pairs legacy-system expertise with modern security-aware engineering.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, Information Systems, BBA, Information Systems at Howard University
English
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Github Skills (18)
tls1210
tls1310
security10
cnc10
mtls10
go10
libtls10
c-language9
grpc9
cprogramming-language9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
kubernetes-pods5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 7 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ken contributed to the Envoy proxy project by implementing and modifying TLS-related functionalities. They added options to disable session resumption for TLS, modified the TLS configuration, and updated the documentation accordingly. They also addressed issues related to client certificate validation during TLS session resumption, providing warnings in the documentation to highlight the potential security implications. Furthermore, the user adjusted the codebase to manage the presence of the `connect_config` field, maintaining precise control over CONNECT request handling.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
kenjenkins/envoy
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 2 months
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