Kenny Yarboro is a seasoned technology leader and managing consultant with 13+ years of experience building automation, network services, and scalable operational solutions that drive measurable business impact. He has led global teams and enterprise-wide automation programs at SAS that delivered tens of millions in cumulative savings, reduced manual effort by dozens of FTEs, and accelerated deployment times from weeks to hours. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, Kenny has hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems, running CI/CD pipelines with Docker/Kubernetes, and contributing backend work to open-source projects like Expertiza. A mentor and builder of high-performing teams, he designs clear career pathways, enforces strong engineering standards, and champions cross-functional collaboration. Based in North Carolina with an MBA and advanced computer science training, he combines technical depth with stakeholder-facing communication to turn complex technical concepts into actionable, executive-aligned strategies.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of North Carolina Wilmington
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Associate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Science (A.S.) at Piedmont Community College
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:20 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kenny made multiple commits focused on modifying the `course_node.rb`, `user.rb`, `ta.rb`, and `teams_user.rb` models. These changes primarily involve modifications to access control for the course nodes and TA roles, along with additions of unit tests for these specific classes. Further contributions included adding and modifying code to facilitate team management features within the application, which enabled functions like creating, editing, and deleting teams, along with undo functionality. The user also modified the course controller adding functionality for course copying.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
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Kenny Yarboro - Managing Consultant at Network to Code