Ken Talley
Staff Software Engineer at Provenance Blockchain Foundation
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Talley is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years building secure, cloud-native and distributed systems, currently creating libraries and tooling for decentralized applications on the Provenance Blockchain. He brings deep expertise in identity and access technologies—ABAC/RBAC, SAML, WS-Fed and cross-domain attribute propagation—and has replaced commercial identity dependencies with integrated open-source Security Token Services for enterprise scenarios. His recent work blends Rust, WebAssembly and CosmWasm smart-contract development with JVM functional/hybrid languages, Kubernetes-based microservices, and container networking/security. At Oracle and RSA he helped productionize cloud infrastructure, Helm-based services, and high-availability APIs, pairing hands-on implementation with architecture and performance instrumentation. Curious about epistemology, ethics, and consensus algorithms, he combines practical security engineering with a wider interest in the theoretical foundations of distributed trust.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (63)
financial9
charts9
blockchain9
docker8
smart-contracts8
cosmwasm8
k8s8
helm8
grafana8
kubernetes8
bare-metal7
kubernetes-cluster7
aws7
ansible7
rust7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
provenance-io/provenance-testing-action
Dec 2022 - Jun 2024
A Github action to simplify testing with the Provenance blockchain
Contributions:5 releases, 10 PRs, 79 pushes in 1 year 6 months
testingblockchainprovenancesimplifyprovenance-blockchain
provenance-io/provwasm-test-tube
Dec 2023 - Nov 2024
Integration testing tool for Provwasm Smart Contracts on Provenance Blockchain
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 47 pushes in 11 months
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