Summary
Shane Kennedy is a Stockholm-based software engineer with nine years of experience building high-throughput, reliable data and service platforms. He has led teams and technical efforts at Klarna and Tink, focusing on Apache Kafka ecosystems, data ingestion pipelines handling thousands of requests per second, and credit decisioning products that moved from concept to production. Shane has a strong track record of re-architecting legacy systems for scalability—achieving up to 4x throughput improvements—and shipping container-based deployments that halved release times. Comfortable across the stack from CI/CD and Docker to APIs and streaming infrastructure, he combines hands-on engineering with team leadership. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to distributed systems and data engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Queen's University