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
11 years of employment as a software developer
Northwestern UniversityMorse High School
Github Skills (22)
redis9
database9
cli9
prototyping9
python8
tmux8
sqlalchemy8
linux8
vim7
sqlite7
sql6
git6
postgresql6
mysql6
moc5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kenjyco/mongo-helper
Mar 2019 - Jul 2025
Helper funcs and tools for working with MongoDB
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch, 14 tags in 6 years 4 months
aggregation-pipelinedatadatabasekenjycomongo
kenjyco/mocp
May 2016 - Jul 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 47 pushes, 18 tags in 9 years 3 months
python-libraryaudio-playerpythonconsolemidi
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