Kenneth Love
Principal Engineer at O'Reilly
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Love is a Principal Engineer in Portland with 18 years of experience building and coaching teams to ship pragmatic Python and Django software at scale. He blends deep hands-on backend work—including notable open-source contributions to projects like django-facebook, django-admin2 and django-braces—with a long history of teaching and creating curricula that help developers ramp up quickly. At O'Reilly he has moved from individual contributor to engineering manager and now principal, focused on improving engineering practices, onboarding, and developer productivity. He also brings a tester’s eye from work on projects like Batavia and a penchant for durable, maintainable code and tooling that accelerates delivery. Outside of day-to-day engineering he regularly speaks at conferences and organizes community events, making him as comfortable in front of a classroom as he is refactoring an auth backend.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Multimedia Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.) Multimedia Technology at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology - Okmulgee
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
sql-query10
javascript10
python10
django10
testing10
authentication10
user-authentication10
django-templates10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
apim9
model-view-controller9
api9
documentation9
version-control8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
brack3t/django-braces
Mar 2012 - Nov 2021
Reusable, generic mixins for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 14 reviews, 318 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth's commits primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation and improving code quality. Their work included updating the README file to provide clearer examples and contributing tests. Additionally, the user fixed a bug related to the handling of superusers within the GroupRequiredMixin and implemented the JsonRequestResponseMixin.
pythoncbvscbvmixinsdjango
beeware/batavia
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
A JavaScript implementation of the Python virtual machine.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth's contributions primarily focused on testing the functionality of the Batavia project. They added and modified test cases, particularly for string operations and tuple implementations, demonstrating a solid understanding of test-driven development. The commits involve verifying the behavior of string methods like `startswith` and implementing comprehensive tests for tuple data types, including various operations. This indicates a focus on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the JavaScript implementation of the Python virtual machine.
javascriptpythonvirtual-machine
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