Ken Kousen
Professor Of The Practice Of Computer Science at Kousen IT, Inc.
Terramuggus, United States
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Top SchoolKen Kousen is a Professor of the Practice of Computer Science and President of Kousen IT, Inc., with 17+ years of industry experience helping teams build robust Java and open-source applications. He teaches at Trinity College, consults and mentors clients, and has a long track record delivering training and lab solutions around Java, Spring, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, and Hibernate/JPA. A recognized Java Champion and frequent NFJS speaker, Ken is also an author of several O’Reilly and technology books—his Modern Java Recipes sources are actively maintained on GitHub. His work spans hands-on backend development, test-driven refactoring, and modernizing legacy codebases using streams, lambdas, and upgraded toolchains. Known for making complex topics accessible, he blends academic rigor (Princeton PhD) with practical, developer-focused pedagogy and consulting. An interesting detail: his career began in aerospace research applying AI to turbomachinery before pivoting to software education and open-source advocacy.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Rensselaer at WorkPh.D. Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
spring10
java-streams10
java10
stream10
javas10
spring-boot10
functional-programming10
gradlew10
gradle10
testing9
java-collections9
jpa9
rest-api8
sql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kousen/spring-and-spring-boot
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Lab solutions for Spring and Spring Boot course
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 89 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ken contributed to the persistence layer and geocoding features of the Spring Boot application. Their work involved implementing Officer repository tests and JPA configurations. They also added a geocoder-client, demonstrating Spring Data and the use of the HAL browser and Google Maps, showcasing full-stack capabilities. Several commits focused on dependency upgrades, including Spring Boot and Gradle.
spring-bootspringjavalab
kousen/java_upgrade
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Code for Java upgrade workshop
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:455 commits, 26 PRs, 482 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ken's primary contribution involved modifying and adding test cases within the Java code base of the workshop repository. These changes include refactoring tests to proper packages, updating imports, and implementing tests. The code changes, including the use of streams and lambda expressions, strongly suggest a focus on backend development practices within the context of the Java upgrade workshop.
functional-programmingworkshopjarjava
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