Kenton Newby
Engineering Manager Solutions Architect AI-Enabled Systems at Mix Digital Media, LLC
Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolKenton Newby is an engineering manager and AI systems architect with 15 years of experience turning ambiguous business needs into reliable, production-grade platforms. He blends hands-on system design, APIs, and full-stack engineering (Ruby on Rails, React/Next.js, TypeScript, SQL) with pragmatic delivery leadership, having led teams and driven cross-functional programs at scale. As founder of Mix Digital Media, he built FamilyGenie.ai—an operational AI ingestion platform that treats LLMs as unreliable dependencies using schema-enforced boundaries, confidence gating, and per-job observability. At Mentor Collective and Driveway Finance he established engineering fundamentals, clarified system boundaries, and improved reliability while owning delivery commitments and stakeholder alignment. A former Air Force officer with graduate-level CS training, he brings disciplined program execution and a knack for translating messy requirements into auditable, constraint-driven designs. He’s particularly strong at engineering guardrails for AI-enabled systems so they perform predictably outside of demo environments.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Loyola University MarylandBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (53)
ruby9
rspec9
marketplace9
homebrew8
solidus8
linux8
reaction7
macos7
package-manager7
passenger6
nginx6
cocoa-touch6
spree6
ruby-on-rails6
payment6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kenton/roadtrip
Aug 2010 - Apr 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
kenton/kenton
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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