Kenny Cason
CTO Co-Founder at Arrived
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Cason is a serial founder and hands-on CTO with 13 years building product-led startups, currently leading engineering and platform strategy at Arrived to make residential real estate investing accessible. He combines full-stack software craftsmanship—favoring Kotlin—with practical product instincts from launching and scaling teams since Y Combinator (’13) and subsequent startup exits/experiences. An active open-source contributor, Kenny maintains the popular Kumo Java word-cloud library, where his work on layout, padding, and rendering demonstrates attention to visual detail and test-driven refinement. Beyond engineering, he pursues machine learning, math, game development and East Asian languages (日本語, 中文), bringing a multidisciplinary curiosity that informs novel product ideas. Based in Seattle, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep technical ownership, equally comfortable shipping core platform features or refining visual and NLP-driven user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
Y Combinator
Stackoverflow
12,208reputation
2.8mreached
124answers
40questions
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
java10
wordcloud10
testing10
image-processing9
user-input9
eclipse9
unit-testing8
maven6
sql6
sdl6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kennycason/kumo
Jul 2014 - Jun 2021
Kumo - Java Word Cloud
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 200 commits, 30 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Kenny's commits primarily involve adding and modifying code related to the `TestWordCloud` class within the `kumo` project. The changes include adding features like padding and angle generation as well as optimizing existing code and updating image files. This user appears to be working on testing and refining the word cloud generation process, specifically focusing on the visual output and layout of the word clouds.
kumowordcloudcloudword-cloudjava
kennycason/kennycason
Jan 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:124 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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