Summary
Michael Kenney is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating scalable, secure services from Fort Collins, Colorado. He brings deep hands-on expertise in microservice architectures, Oracle enterprise databases, and systems integration, and has driven infrastructure and deployment practices that enable high availability and continuous delivery. Across roles at Validity and Return Path he built secure SSO systems, automated testing, and robust Golang and PL/SQL backends while also contributing front-end and middleware work earlier in his career. He pairs practical operations experience (DBA and sysadmin) with software craftsmanship, often owning end-to-end delivery for acquired-product integration projects. Colleagues rely on him for clear development standards and pragmatic architecture decisions that balance legacy enterprise systems with modern service design. Beyond the typical principal engineer profile, he still sums up his approach simply: “I write code,” emphasizing a continual, hands-on engagement with product-quality software.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer