Kenny Hoxworth
Founder CTO at Teammates
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Hoxworth is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building scalable developer and AI-driven products from startup to enterprise. Currently Founder CTO of Teammates after senior engineering leadership roles at ReadMe, RapidAPI, and Twilio, he blends hands-on system design with team and org-level execution. His background spans software architecture, API platforms, and security-informed engineering—rooted in early work at the NSA and co-founding a cyber solutions firm. An active open-source contributor, he improved core functionality in the Ruby JSON Schema validator, demonstrating attention to validation correctness and modular refactors. Based in Pleasanton, CA, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a practical focus on automating low-value work so teams can concentrate on high-impact creative problems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (9)
testing10
json-validation10
schema-validation10
validation10
json-schema-validator10
json-schema10
ruby10
unit-testing9
schema-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/json-schema
Nov 2010 - Nov 2015
Ruby JSON Schema Validator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:259 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Kenny primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Ruby JSON Schema Validator. Their work involved fixing the "extends" functionality, supporting custom formats, improving schema validation, and adding support for list validation. The user also refactored and modularized code, breaking out validation routines into individual methods and adding validation tests.
schema-validatorvalidationrubyjson-schema-validatorvalidator
hoxworth/itree
Jul 2013 - Dec 2021
Ruby Interval Tree library
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 8 years 6 months
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