Kenneth Cochran
Senior DevOps Engineer at Unum
Greater Chattanooga United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Cochran is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and operating reliable software systems, currently driving infrastructure and platform work at Unum. He began coding on a Tandy running GW-BASIC and has grown into a pragmatic engineer who blends hands-on development with operational rigor across cloud-native and backend systems. Kenneth contributes to open-source projects—most notably adding native zip compression support in the browser JVM project Doppio—reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving. Based in Greater Chattanooga, he pairs a computer science background with deep practical experience across multiple industries, and his colleagues value him for quietly turning curiosity into robust, production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Computer Programming, Associates, Computer Programming at Florida State College at JacksonvilleDiploma, General Education, Diploma, General Education at University Christian SchoolBachelor's, Computer Science, Bachelor's, Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing9
delphi9
design-patterns9
ide9
javas8
java8
unit-testing6
mvp6
refactoring6
tdd6
pointer6
garbage-collection6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
plasma-umass/doppio
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Breaks the browser language barrier (includes a plugin-free JVM).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to the `doppio` project by implementing native functions related to zip compression and decompression. Their work involved adding and modifying TypeScript code in the `src/natives/java_util.ts` file, which interacts with the underlying zlib library. They also made changes to the Java test files to include error checking and adjust the input string to ensure the tests passed correctly.
browserbarrierjvmfree-pluginbrowser-language
iCodeSometime/machine_config
Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
My personal machine configuration. Feel free to use.
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
configurationansibleconfigdotfilesfree-to-use
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