Ken Rimey
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Rimey is a seasoned senior software engineer with 14 years of professional experience and a 12-year tenure at Google, where he specialized in Google Cloud Platform and Stackdriver Monitoring APIs. He combines deep systems and backend expertise—spanning distributed systems, API design, and large-scale monitoring—with a long history of research-driven prototyping from roles at HIIT and Nokia. Ken has contributed to prominent open-source work like the google-cloud-python client library, implementing Monitoring API features and improving test coverage for a widely used Google Cloud SDK. His career includes architecting complex backends and tooling for enterprises, energy marketplaces, and trust analysis of SSH keys, reflecting a knack for turning hard distributed problems into practical solutions. With a PhD in computer science and early work in compilers and hardware/software codesign, he brings rigorous academic foundations to production-grade engineering. Based in New York, he pairs hands-on coding with systems-level thinking and a history of shipping reliable, scalable services.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Physics, MA, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBS with high honor, Physics, BS with high honor, Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology
Finnish
Github Skills (10)
google-cloud-platform10
api10
python10
apidoc10
unit-test10
gcp10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Google Cloud Client Library for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 18 PRs, 3 pushes in 24 days
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Python client library, focusing on the Monitoring API. Their work included implementing new features like fetching metric descriptors and resource descriptors, querying time series data, and adding associated unit tests. Additionally, they modified existing code, including refactoring the query API, adjusting documentation and dependencies. Moreover, they enhanced the test coverage by adjusting pragmas.
gcpappenginepythongoogleclient-library
rimey/gcloud-python
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:81 pushes, 27 branches in 1 month
gcppythongoogleclient-librarygoogle-cloud-platform
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