Kenzi Connor
CEO & CTO at Cloud City Development
Oakland, California, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKenzi Connor is a seasoned CEO/CTO and founder with 18+ years building data-driven web and mobile products and 20+ years of hands-on engineering experience. Based in Oakland and running Cloud City Development since 2010, she has scaled the firm to 35 people and repeatedly built teams that went on to IPO, be acquired, or raise hundreds of millions. A pragmatic full-stack engineer comfortable in Rust, Ruby, and JS, she blends product-focused design with lean delivery and deep operational experience running a cashflow business for 17+ years. Her early contributions to tooling like the Rack::Bug debugging toolbar underscore a long-running commitment to improving developer workflows as well as production systems. Clients range from Fortune 500s to mission-driven startups and non-profits, and she’s known for stepping into high-leverage interim CTO roles to rapidly stabilize and scale engineering organizations.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
English
Github Skills (7)
debugging10
rack10
debug10
middleware10
ruby10
sinatra9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brynary/rack-bug
Apr 2009 - Apr 2012
Debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middleware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kenzi primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Rack::Bug debugging toolbar. They implemented changes to the sample Sinatra application, adding features like a bookmarklet link and making it runnable from the root. They also modified the log panel to display log levels and refactored the code, including moving files, changing class structures, and optimizing code readability. These improvements suggest the user was responsible for the core debugging functionality of the tool.
sinatratoolbarrackrubydebugging
knzconnor/rack-bug
Apr 2009 - Apr 2010
Contributions:48 commits in 11 months
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