Ken Walker
Senior Developer at Apex Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Walker is a Senior Developer with 11 years of recent experience and a 40+-year software career spanning embedded systems, enterprise cloud, and high-performance networking. He combines hands-on architecture and full-lifecycle delivery with team leadership—having led teams to ship V1 products such as industrial 3D printing control software and restructured lagging teams to accelerate releases. Comfortable translating between non-technical stakeholders and engineers, he excels at defining requirements, documenting processes, and mentoring junior developers to maximize business value. His background includes performance analysis in Azure, rapid uptake of new languages like Go, and building low-latency logging and configuration subsystems for mission-critical hardware. Based in Austin, Ken brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach that consistently reduces time-to-market while improving operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (12)
uniform10
zenoss9
scale9
docker9
paas8
kubernetes7
extjs4
migration2
development-environment2
docker-image2
dashboard2
linux1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
control-center/serviced
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Serviced is a PaaS runtime. It allows users to create, manage and scale services in a uniform way.
Contributions:220 commits, 108 PRs, 158 pushes in 9 months
paasruntimedockerscalekubernetes
zenoss/zenoss-prodbin
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Zenoss - zenoss-prodbin module
Contributions:49 commits, 42 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 months
zenoss
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