Ken Richard
Okaya - Software Engineering at Assemble Stream / Zuckerberg Media
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Richard is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable SaaS and consumer-facing platforms, currently shaping AI-driven behavioral health screening at Okaya. He has a track record of guiding startups from MVP to scale—leading engineering at Assemble Stream through a pandemic-era live-streaming pivot and transforming Applied Educational Systems from on-premise products to a multi-tenant platform serving millions of students. Comfortable hiring and managing cross-functional teams, Ken blends product-minded architecture with data-driven decisions to align technical roadmaps to business outcomes. He favors pragmatic, outcomes-focused engineering that makes services resilient and accessible, and brings a knack for converting mission-driven ideas into measurable user impact. An alumnus of Millersville University with deep K–12 edtech and live-streaming experience, he excels at early-stage challenges where technology and human-centered design meet.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
rake10
test-kitchen10
scorm9
api9
ruby7
multicore6
eclipse6
javascript6
winapi6
multithreading6
ruby-on-rails6
java6
in-progress2
rails1
sinatra1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ken-Richard/tincan_nodejs
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 1 year 6 months
aeseducation/scorm-cloud
Jul 2011 - May 2017
Ruby API Wrapper for Rustici SCORM Cloud
Contributions:34 commits, 1 push in 6 years
apiraketest-kitchenapi-wrapperruby
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