Ken Mayer
Technical Lead at Cisco Meraki
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKen Mayer is a San Francisco–based technical lead and unapologetic Rubyist with 17 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack systems using Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL and disciplined practices like TDD, pair programming and XP. He combines long-term engineering throughput with managerial experience—consistently carrying a full coding load while growing teams, mentoring mid‑level engineers into senior roles, and fostering healthy distributed collaboration. Ken has worked across startups and enterprise domains including finance, retail, education and services, and contributes to open source (notably improving license detection and test coverage in pivotal/LicenseFinder). He excels at quickly absorbing domain language and translating business priorities into pragmatic technical solutions, preferring mentorship over traditional people management. Outside of software he’s been a system administrator, SCUBA instructor and boat captain—backgrounds that reveal a practical, curious problem solver who brings steady composure to change‑heavy environments.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
licensing10
currency10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
cucumber6
visual-studio-code6
associations6
activerecord6
swagger-codegen6
swagger6
selenium6
capybara6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal/LicenseFinder
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Find licenses for your project's dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ken focused on enhancing the license detection capabilities within the project. They implemented support for the GPLv2 license and MIT license variations. They also ensured the reliability of license detection by adding tests, including handling non-UTF-8 file encodings and verifying correct license identification through changes to the testing setup.
licensesdependencieserlangruby
kmayer/kmayer.github.io
Aug 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:121 pushes, 14 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
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