Summary
Ken Wimer is a seasoned software engineer and operations leader with 12+ years of experience in performance testing, transaction and query processing, and technical team leadership. As Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Outside Table, he blends entrepreneurial grit with hands-on product and supply-chain management—running commercial kitchens, organic certifications, ecommerce and logistics for a small-batch sauce company inspired by Southern flavors. Technically fluent across Java/J2EE, Node.js, databases (Oracle, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra), cloud platforms and performance tuning, he has a track record at firms from Accenture to Slalom delivering robust, scalable systems. Equally comfortable writing test designs as he is tuning SQL or launching a brand, Ken pairs deep systems expertise with practical business execution—and an unexpected specialty: championship-level BBQ that informs his food startup’s authenticity.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at College of Charleston