Ken Winke
Director Of Technology at Optimus
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Winke is a technology leader with over two decades at Optimus and eight years of formal experience as a software professional, currently serving as Director of Technology in Chicago. He progressed through technical and editorial roles into leadership, blending deep operational know-how with hands-on systems expertise and a Red Hat Certified Engineer credential. Ken specializes in building and scaling infrastructure and converged systems, guiding teams from technical direction to strategic technology decisions. His long tenure at one company reflects a focus on institutional knowledge, reliability, and incremental modernization rather than frequent job-hopping. With a BA in Radio/TV from Southern Illinois University, he brings a communications-minded approach to translating complex technical concepts for stakeholders. Colleagues rely on him for steady leadership during platform transitions and for pragmatic, standards-based solutions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Radio/TV, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Radio/TV at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (11)
golang10
homebrew10
command-line-tool10
starlark10
macos10
administration10
binaries10
cli10
storage3
aws3
cloud-storage2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kwinke/tidbyt-community
May 2023 - Jan 2025
A publishing platform for apps developed by the Tidbyt community 🚀
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
kwinke/homebrew-cask
Feb 2018 - May 2020
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:4 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 3 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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