Ken Payne
Lead Data Platform Engineer
Epsom and Ewell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Payne is a Lead Data Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building data-first systems across startups and scale-ups, currently shaping Gousto’s platform. He brings deep AWS expertise from multiple roles at Amazon Web Services and hands-on engineering leadership across companies like Zego, tails.com and Arch, combining architecture, ETL, and platform delivery. Ken excels at translating business questions into pragmatic technical designs, rapidly selecting the right mix of tools and services to tame diverse, disparate data. He contributes to open-source data tooling—extending Meltano’s CLI and selection service—to improve developer UX and deployability. Known for coaching teams and fostering data literacy, he pairs infectious curiosity with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade pipelines. His MEng in Electronic Engineering underpins a methodical, systems-oriented approach to solving complex data problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electronic Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
English
Github Skills (14)
command-line10
command-line-interface10
python10
cli10
pytest9
elt9
testing9
data-engineering9
open-source8
dataops8
data-pipeline8
data-pipelines8
integrations7
integrate7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
meltano/meltano
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & Data Engineer
Full-stack Developer & Data EngineerContributions:47 reviews, 98 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ken's primary contribution revolves around extending the `meltano select` command, adding features to remove patterns and improve functionality. This involved modifications to the command-line interface (CLI), core selection service, and associated tests. Furthermore, the user has contributed to release management and resolved issues related to multiple YAML file configurations and environment variables.
pythondataloadersdbtdataops-platform
kgpayne/blog
Nov 2019 - Mar 2024
Yet another Personal blog.
Contributions:22 PRs, 66 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 4 months
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