Tom Kennedy
Principal Engineer at Broadcom
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Kennedy is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently based in Huntington, New York. He has progressed through senior technical roles at VMware Tanzu and Broadcom, bringing deep expertise in Kubernetes-focused systems and backend engineering. Tom contributes to notable open-source projects like kpack, improving error handling and test robustness to make container build pipelines more reliable and user-friendly. He combines hands-on Go development and DevOps sensibilities with a track record of shipping production-ready solutions at large enterprise scale. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Tom also brings early leadership experience from managing university tech crews, reflecting a long-standing blend of technical ownership and team coordination.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at Northport High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Villanova University
Github Skills (6)
go10
buildpack9
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
testing8
cloud-native7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
buildpacks-community/kpack
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Native Container Build Service
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:430 reviews, 160 commits, 346 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on improving error surfacing and handling within the image wait process. They modified Go code to display more informative error messages and prevent dangling colons. Additionally, the user contributed to test updates within the same area. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the robustness and usability of the application's internal processes.
containersdockerkuberneteskubernetes-nativecloud-native
buildpacks-community/homebrew-kpack-cli
Nov 2021 - Dec 2024
Homebrew Tap for kpack-cli (https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/kpack-cli)
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 3 years 1 month
tanzuvmware-tanzuvmwarehomebrewhomebrew-tap
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