Kenneth Kinion
Founder, CEO at Validin
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Kinion is a founder and CEO with 15+ years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, specializing in improving development efficiency through testing, visibility, and tool/process standardization. He has led engineering, QA, and research teams across startups and enterprise environments, driving automation-first transformations that cut feedback loops from weeks to hours and saved significant infrastructure costs. Technically fluent from embedded C/assembly to cloud, big-data streaming, and distributed systems, he builds pragmatic solutions that balance simplicity with scalability. His background includes roles at Amazon and Microsoft where he created data verification tools and distributed analysis dashboards, and at companies like Yik Yak and Damballa where he instituted disciplined CI/CD and SDET career paths. Based in Atlanta, he combines product-focused contract engineering with a knack for turning chaotic processes into reliable, measurable workflows. Notably, he pairs deep low-level embedded experience with modern cloud and analytics expertise—allowing him to bridge firmware-to-cloud product lifecycles.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (43)
search-engine10
python10
cybersecurity10
network-monitoring10
security10
exploit10
threat-intelligence10
malware10
traffic10
cve10
intrusion-detection10
sensor10
network-tools9
hacking9
vulnerabilities9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
warmer/quick_tools
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:18 PRs, 49 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 11 months
golanggistsclean
warmer/canvasteroid
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
animationcanvasjavascriptshootingshooting-game
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