Kenneth Daily
Software Developer Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Daily is a software development engineer with 14+ years applying programming, data analysis, and project coordination to biology and human health research. He combines hands‑on engineering at AWS—contributing to widely used open-source projects like the AWS CLI and botocore—with deep domain experience building reproducible, collaborative research infrastructure at Sage Bionetworks. Comfortable in cloud environments (AWS), workflow systems (CWL, Toil, Snakemake), and languages including Python and R, he bridges developer relations, technical writing, and backend engineering. His background spans wet‑lab computational analysis of cancer genomics to orchestrating crowdsourced data competitions and collaborative consortia. Known for promoting open science and reproducibility, he also brings a rare blend of research-grade bioinformatics (PhD) and production-grade software craft. Seattle‑based, he excels at turning complex interdisciplinary questions into maintainable, documented systems that enable broader scientific collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Informatics, B.S., Informatics at Indiana University BloomingtonPhD, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, PhD, Computer Science, Bioinformatics at University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
botocore10
restructuredtext10
aws10
aws-cli10
python10
documentation10
aws-cloudformation9
git7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cli
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:368 reviews, 116 commits, 429 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the AWS CLI's documentation and core functionality. They updated the README and CONTRIBUTING guides, switching the README from Markdown to reStructuredText. Furthermore, they added a test and addressed documentation typos, specifically for CloudFormation. Their work included modifications to the core code, such as adding a paramfile exception and fixing type outputs.
aws-clicommand-line-interfaceamazonweb-servicescloud
boto/botocore
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The low-level, core functionality of boto3 and the AWS CLI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 16 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth contributed to improving botocore's functionality and maintainability. Their work involved adding debug statements for troubleshooting, updating the contributing guide, and modifying integration tests related to public access settings. Furthermore, they implemented and refactored aspects of the configuration management system, and addressed memory issues within test setups. This included the addition of environment variable based overrides.
aws-cliboto3awslow-levelcli
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