Kenneth W
Founder at Kenjyco LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth W is a founder and senior Python backend engineer based in Chicago with over a decade of experience building developer tooling, data-focused systems, and improving developer experience. He has led engineering and SRE teams, served as a developer advocate at Great Expectations, and recently held a principal engineer role while running his own company, Kenjyco LLC. Comfortable across the stack, Kenneth blends hands-on Python craftsmanship with DevOps and CLI-first workflows—he’s a self-described command-line aficionado and Linux enthusiast who prioritizes tooling that makes engineers more productive. His background spans startups and product companies where he moved between individual contributor and leadership roles, shipping reliable systems in production. Notably, he pairs practical operational experience with developer education, helping teams adopt better testing and data quality practices.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MorseNorthwestern University
Github Skills (25)
prototyping10
searching9
cli9
database8
python8
sqlalchemy8
redisearch8
redis8
linux7
neovim7
vim7
tmux7
zsh6
sql6
moc5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kenjyco/bg-helper
Mar 2017 - Dec 2024
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch, 22 tags in 7 years 9 months
kenjyco/kenjyco
Nov 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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