Kevyn Ford
Senior Engineering Manager at SentinelOne
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevyn Ford is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience who currently serves as Senior Engineering Manager at SentinelOne, focused on the Singularity Data Lake. He has led large, distributed teams and technical re-architecture initiatives across fintech, enterprise software, and observability—most recently driving Java and Ruby APM product innovation at New Relic. Known for creating environments where engineers thrive, Kevyn pairs people-first management with deep hands-on expertise in Java, middleware and data platforms. His career traces early systems and C/C++ work through JavaEE and modern cloud-native architectures, giving him rare breadth across legacy-to-modern migrations. Based in New Jersey, he’s equally comfortable solving complex technical challenges and mentoring the next generation of tech leaders, often chosen to be the technical owner on high-impact initiatives.
4 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at New York Institute of TechnologyCollege of Aeronautics
Github Skills (45)
asciidoc10
jsinterop10
relic10
java10
security10
newrelic10
agent10
java-agent10
documentation10
backlog10
ruby9
apm-agent9
reporter8
rpm8
open-telemetry-java7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kford-newrelic/newrelic-java-agent
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
The New Relic Java agent
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
agentsecurityjava-agentjavanew-relic
kford-newrelic/docs-website
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs. We welcome feedback on the docs in GitHub issues!
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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