Rob Kennedy
Staff Software Engineer at Cohesity
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolRob Kennedy is a Staff Software Engineer with 28 years of experience building systems-level and cloud-native software using C++, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, and the Windows API. He has held senior engineering and principal roles at Veritas and Symantec and recently joined Cohesity, bringing deep expertise in storage, distributed systems, and reliable application programming. Comfortable across Windows and Unix-like environments, he combines low-level API mastery with modern container orchestration to deliver production-grade solutions. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, he pairs long tenure in enterprise software with a practical teaching background and an eye for maintainable, platform-aware design.
28 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
multithreading10
windows10
winapi10
greasemonkey10
global-variables10
memory-leaks10
memory-management10
golang10
git10
git-addons10
exceptions10
svn10
dll10
delphi10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rkennedy/dotfiles
Dec 2012 - Dec 2022
My configuration settings
Contributions:222 commits, 2 PRs, 83 pushes in 10 years 1 month
rkennedy/setting-watchdog
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Reset OS settings when they change
Contributions:3 reviews, 55 PRs, 245 pushes in 4 years 1 month
settingsovirt
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