Kenneth Ellis
Chief Technology Officer at Sweet
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Ellis is a veteran technology executive and entrepreneur with 13 years in senior engineering leadership and a career spanning startups, research, and global media operations. As CTO of Reuters News Agency he led 120 engineers across New York, London, and Beijing to deliver multimedia at cloud scale to a billion consumers daily, pioneering serverless architectures, security practices, and AI for news. He previously built state-of-the-art NLP and metadata systems at Daylife that powered major publishers and earlier helped develop novel P2P monitoring and interdiction tools during the file‑sharing era. Now at Sweet, he designs Web3 fan experiences and built one of the first high-volume NFT production and distribution platforms, blending media workflows with blockchain. Trained as a physicist (MIT BS, Cornell PhD) and with a background in device research at Bell Labs, he combines deep technical rigor with product-focused engineering and a knack for turning cutting-edge research into scalable, revenue-driving systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD Physics, PhD Physics at Cornell University
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Github Skills (33)
long-polling9
ecb9
serverless8
tezos8
ctr8
aes8
serverless-framework8
testing7
block-cipher7
sui7
aws7
integration-testing7
erc207
django6
nodejs5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sweet-io-org/blockchain_exploration
Mar 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 5 months
ReutersMedia/sqs-browser-events
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Serverless long-polling via AWS SQS, Lambda, and Cognito
Contributions:48 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
awslong-pollingserverless
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