Kenny Scharm
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Scharm is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade of experience building full-stack web experiences, cloud-native backends, and distributed systems. He has delivered features across Edge, Windows taskbar, and MSN entertainment platforms and played a key role in rebranding and migrating smash.gg to start.gg. Previously at IBM he authored Kubernetes operators in Go, managed high-throughput production deployments, and was the primary developer and release manager of a Redis operator deployed via Helm and Terraform. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he combines API and cloud expertise with hands-on release engineering and automation skills. A Georgia Tech MS graduate, Kenny also mentors through teaching assistant roles and shares projects on GitHub, reflecting a consistent interest in open-source and tooling that improves developer productivity. Notably, his background spans both game AI instruction and high-scale infrastructure, demonstrating a rare blend of product-facing UX work and deep systems engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaComputer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (57)
kubernetes10
docker10
robot10
go10
varnish10
pathfinding10
javascript-client9
robotics9
scheduling9
operator9
ros9
cpp9
computer-vision9
opencv8
redis-cluster8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kscharm/igvc-software
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
pythonvehiclebase-codegroundintelligent
IBM/operator-for-redis-cluster
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
IBM Operator for Redis Cluster
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 86 commits in 9 months
redisredis-clusteroperatorkubernetesibm
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