Ken Rickard
Sr. Director Of Consulting at Drupal Project
Augusta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Rickard is a seasoned technology leader with 18 years of experience driving product strategy, professional services, and delivery for web and open-source projects. As Sr. Director of Consulting at Palantir.net he leads open-source contributions, steers client-facing engagements, and acts as Value Stream Delivery Lead, blending hands-on architecture with executive strategy. His background spans product management, rapid prototyping, and commercial partnerships across media and publishing, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and market-savvy. A longtime Drupal contributor and mentor, he quietly shapes community tooling while leading distributed teams and hiring for growth. Based in Augusta, Georgia, Ken pairs an MA in English with a pragmatic engineering career, which informs his strength in clear communication, documentation, and stakeholder alignment.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA English with Honors, BA English with Honors at Trinity UniversityMA English Language and Literature, MA English Language and Literature at University of Virginia
Github Skills (93)
symfony-console10
gulp10
tld10
drupal10
ansible-collections10
rector10
php10
bem9
federated9
fail2ban9
create-project9
workbench9
single-page8
solr8
golang8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
palantirnet/drupal-10-development
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
A minimal project build for Drupal 10 module development
Contributions:17 reviews, 62 commits, 28 PRs in 1 month
build-projectphpdrupal
wingedfivegames/wingedfivegames.github.io
Jul 2017 - Aug 2023
Jekyll site repository.
Contributions:3 PRs, 73 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 1 month
jekyll-sitejekyll
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