Summary
Ken Reese is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating data infrastructure and site reliability systems at Lucid Software. He progressed from backend and ETL engineering into SRE-focused data infrastructure, now shaping reliability and scalability for a platform used by millions worldwide. Ken has a strong full-stack background—Python, Scala, Java, Node.js—and hands-on cloud expertise deploying services on AWS with containers, RDS, Redis, and Redshift. His academic work in internet security and a 72-person longitudinal 2FA study signal a disciplined, research-driven approach to usability and security. Previously he scaled consumer-facing services from thousands to half a million users and led engineering culture improvements like code review and mentorship. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he combines production-grade systems thinking with an uncommon depth in authentication research.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Brigham Young University