Summary
Levi Kennedy is a Staff Developer with 16 years of engineering experience and a 14-year track record building scalable, maintainable web applications, primarily in e-commerce and supply chain domains. He blends hands-on backend and platform engineering—helping teams migrate CI systems and build QA tooling—with site reliability work focused on identifying and resolving slow transactions. At Tuft & Needle he not only transitioned CI to Buildkite but also created end-to-end test tooling and coached engineers on observability tools like Honeycomb, Skylight, and New Relic. Passionate about mentorship and pair programming, he regularly elevates junior engineers' diagnostic and performance-tuning skills. Now based in Nashville and serving as a Staff Developer at 1Password, he brings pragmatic leadership that marries developer productivity, reliability, and team growth. An atypical background in commercial music and music technology informs his attention to systems, tooling, and collaborative practices.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Commercial Music with an Emphasis in Music Technology, Bachelors Commercial Music with an Emphasis in Music Technology at Belmont University