Summary
Kenny Arehart is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Portland with 15 years of industry experience blending software engineering, animation, and people-first leadership. He has led engineering teams at Super.com and Fond, driving internal tools and operations while maintaining hands-on expertise across front-end and back-end stacks—ActionScript to modern JavaScript, Node, React, Express, MongoDB and Ruby on Rails. Known for building modular, future-proof systems, Kenny also brings a unique animator’s eye to programmatic motion and visual effects, which informs his UX-minded engineering. He excels at translating creative product goals into scalable technical pipelines—previously architecting a lightweight, cross-platform ad delivery system and tooling to empower non-programmers. Colleagues describe him as a leader who finds what motivates people and aligns that with measurable outcomes, making him equally at home mentoring engineers or shipping production code.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Animation, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Animation at Loyola Marymount University