Ken Kinder
Technical Product Manager at Emissary.ai
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorKen Kinder is a Technical Product Manager with 23+ years of hands-on software engineering and product leadership, currently overseeing a 12-person team at Emissary after building its first MVP single-handedly. He has a proven track record as an early employee at multiple startups and as a core developer at Rackspace, blending systems architecture, SaaS delivery, and data-driven forecasting into product strategy. Comfortable shipping full-stack solutions (Python/Django, Vue.js) and instituting CI, SOC2 readiness, and operational processes, he excels at turning prototypes into scalable, compliant products. Known for pragmatic people leadership and process improvements, he pairs deep technical instincts with a talent for employee development and cost-aware decision making. Colleagues describe him as driven and down-to-earth, and outside work he’s a self-described “Python snob” and IPA enthusiast—hinting at a curious, opinionated technologist who values craft.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
12,890reputation
2.2mreached
193answers
48questions
flask
top-5%
python
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printing
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
swagger10
openapi10
swagger-ui10
api10
json10
ui-toolkit10
mailgun10
uvicorn10
python10
asgi10
ag-grid10
color-scheme10
pyscript10
high-performance10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kkinder/GAEStarterKit
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 129 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years
googlegoogle-appapp-enginegoogle-app-engine
kkinder/puepy
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Python+Webassembly Frontend Framework via PyScript
Contributions:34 releases, 8 reviews, 56 PRs in 9 months
frameworkfrontendfrontend-frameworkpyscriptpython
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