Will Kennedy
Software Architect at Benefit Communications Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Kennedy is a seasoned Software Architect with 25 years of hands-on experience designing and scaling systems across Fortune 500s, startups, and open-source projects, currently focusing on security and cloud-native practices in Washington, DC. He excels at increasing developer productivity and reliability—having led migrations to event-driven architectures, implemented OTA platforms at GM, and modernized security with Azure Managed Identities and B2C. His technical breadth spans Java/Spring, Rust, and TypeScript, with deep SRE/DevOps, backend/frontend, and security expertise that lets him spot inefficiencies and ship pragmatic solutions. Will also designs custom blockchain systems and maintains an active GitHub portfolio, reflecting a continuous appetite for new languages and frameworks. A practical problem-solver and mentor, he blends enterprise rigor with startup agility to reduce misconfiguration risk and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of South Carolina-Aiken
English
Github Skills (45)
apache-kafka8
spring8
spring-boot8
java8
spring-kafka8
kafka7
logstash7
java-api7
logging7
activemq6
single-sign-on6
javascript6
apache6
borsh6
serde5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wkennedy/pubsubly
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Pubsubly is an application to track messages as they flow through a pub/sub backed message driven architecture.
Contributions:8 PRs, 99 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
eventstreameventeventsourceactivemqpublish-subscribe
wkennedy/borsh-schema-utils
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
These are libraries that provide additional utility for serializing and deserializing data with Borsh using the BorshSchemaContainer.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 6 months
borshdeserializationjsonrustserde
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