Kenny Ballou
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at California State University San Marcos
San Marcos, California, United States
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Top SchoolKenny Ballou is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Cal State San Marcos with 13 years of industry and academic experience spanning software development, site reliability, and research. His work sits at the intersection of static analysis and software engineering, informed by hands-on experience maintaining AWS infrastructure and building developer tooling. A longtime advocate of functional programming, he authored Learning Elixir and brings that perspective to both teaching and systems design. Having progressed from big-data and enterprise development roles to SRE and PhD research, he bridges practical production concerns with formal program analysis. Based in San Marcos, CA, he balances rigorous research with ongoing consulting and software work through /dev/null labs.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing at Boise State University
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Github Skills (199)
junit-test10
python10
messenger10
perl10
automation10
infrastructure10
robotframework10
remote-execution10
duckduckgo10
javascript10
multicore10
linux10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
cli-application10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kennyballou/guix-channel
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
kennyballou/docker-awscli
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:344 pushes, 1 branch, 403 tags in 2 years 1 month
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