Kevin Ballard
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Abnormal AI
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Ballard is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Montreal with 14 years building large-scale, latency-sensitive backend systems and a deep expertise in high-performance Python. He has led technical teams and architectures at companies from TellApart and Twitter to founding CTO responsibilities at Ensho Health, and now focuses on applied AI infrastructure at Abnormal AI. Kevin’s background spans full lifecycle delivery—from low-level firmware and FreeBSD driver work early in his career to designing online storage and streaming systems—giving him a rare blend of hardware-aware systems thinking and cloud-native practice. He excels at optimizing mission-critical data paths and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs that keep services both fast and reliable. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership that pairs hands-on implementation with strategic architecture decisions. Trained as a Mechatronics engineer at the University of Waterloo, he brings multidisciplinary rigor and tooling-first automation to complex production problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Mechatronics Engineering, BASc Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
French
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Github Skills (26)
strings10
redis10
database10
in-memory9
key-value9
lists9
nosql9
fst9
data-model9
disk9
message-broker9
redis-server8
in-memory-database8
bigtable8
memory-database8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tellapart/redis
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
memoryredissorted-setsstringsdisk
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