Kenaniah Cerny
Distinguished Engineer at Flock Safety
Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States
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Top SchoolKenaniah Cerny is a Distinguished Engineer and serial founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical software for public safety and operations. He co-founded SPIDR Tech (CTO) and Aerodome (Chief Architect), both of which were acquired, and now leads customer deployments at Flock Safety, blending product vision with hands-on technical delivery. His background spans software engineering, SRE, and enterprise-grade architecture, informed by formal study in UX and product management and experience teaching a full-stack coding bootcamp. An active open-source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, he has extended influential projects like Sequel and Roda with database and routing improvements and enhanced Sidekiq tooling for job tracking. Known for translating complex requirements into reliable, deployable systems, he pairs engineering depth with customer-focused operational leadership. Based in Rancho Palos Verdes, he brings an unusual mix of classroom teaching, startup building, and low-level database and backend craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA Youth Ministries Music Minor, BA Youth Ministries Music Minor at Point Loma Nazarene University
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Github Skills (19)
redis10
testing10
plugin-development10
sidekiq10
plugin10
ruby10
database-design10
web-framework10
mysql9
rspec9
php9
database-management9
sql8
method-chaining6
database6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
utgarda/sidekiq-status
Sep 2016 - Jun 2021
an extension to the sidekiq message processing to track your jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 50 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kenaniah primarily focused on enhancing the `sidekiq-status` library, a Sidekiq extension for tracking jobs. Their contributions include implementing features for ActiveJob support, such as storing status updates for `perform_now` invocations. The user also improved the test suite, and added functionality to the web interface, adding features like pagination, sorting, and buttons to remove or retry jobs. They also updated the gem version several times during their contributions.
railsrubysidekiqmessagejobs
jeremyevans/sequel
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kenaniah primarily contributes to the Sequel database toolkit by adding features and extending functionality. Their commits include adding new plugins like `sequel-active_record`, `index_caching`, and `sequel-through`, indicating a focus on enhancing the toolkit's capabilities. The user also added support for cross-database and linked server models to MSSQL. These contributions show an understanding of database interactions and extending the features of the Sequel project.
sequelmysqlsqlrubytoolkit
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