Summary
Ken Webb is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient embedded and cloud-native systems, currently optimizing cloud video integrations at Extron. He combines deep C/C++ and POSIX multithreading expertise with modern containerization and CI/CD practices, having championed Docker adoption and containerized OpenStack at ADVA. Ken has a proven record of practical performance wins—reducing network traffic by up to 50%, cutting API code size by 30–40%, and delivering memory and telemetry improvements that enabled product releases. Comfortable across databases (SQLite, MySQL, BerkeleyDB) and automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins), he bridges low-level firmware constraints and higher-level cloud architectures. Known for pragmatic debugging and forensic tooling, he often translates complex field issues into maintainable, testable solutions and process improvements. Based in Raleigh, NC, he focuses on the intersection of IoT and cloud technology, with a knack for squeezing efficiency out of constrained systems.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at North Carolina State University