Ken Thompson
SVP, Head Of Product at Buildkite
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKen Thompson is an experienced SaaS product leader with 15 years in the industry and over a decade focused on product, now serving as SVP, Head of Product at Buildkite in Melbourne. He has a track record of scaling delivery platforms and GTM motion—simplifying onboarding, launching enterprise features, and driving product-led growth that materially improved adoption and revenue metrics. Previously he led product and cloud strategy at Microsoft and Stax, where he combined technical architecture, open source integrations and AI/LLM tooling to boost customer growth, delivery output and operational efficiency. Ken blends hands-on engineering empathy with investor-facing strategy (helping enable a $267.5M acquisition), and quietly applies hobbyist home automation curiosity from his GitHub work to practical automation and tooling problems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (Business Systems) IT Business, Master of Technology (Business Systems) IT Business at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor of Arts Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts Graphic Design at Charles Sturt University
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Github Skills (62)
buildkite10
python10
architecture10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
garden10
adaptive-lighting10
asyncio10
hue10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
sunset10
arm-templates10
azure10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mekenthompson/example-voting-app
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 79 pushes in 1 year 3 months
docker-exampledocker-composedockercompose
mekenthompson/apache-php
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:34 pushes in 1 month
docker-imagephpphp-applicationsdockerapache
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