Kenneth V Kennedy
San Jose, CA, USA
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Email:
kenneth@kennedy.onl
Skills
Web Development
Front and back end development, well versed with systems best practices in web application development, trained in
web security best practices and back-end systems security & major compliance standards.
Programming Languages
C++, Java, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, Bash.
Experience
Google
Jun '2019 - Present
Sr. Software Engineer, YouTube Music, San Bruno
Oct '2022 - Present
Software Engineer III, YouTube Music, Mountain View / San Bruno
Mar '2021 -
Oct '2022
- Lead engineer on the Ingestion Pipeline for processing media files into YouTube.
Software Engineer III, Google Podcasts, Mountain View
Nov '2019 -
Feb '2021
- Enable queuing episodes and playing from it on Google Podcasts.
- Building the infrastructure to enable adding podcast RSS feed URLs to user libraries.
Software Engineer III, Search Assistant, Mountain View
Jun '2019 -
Nov '2019
- Help enable personalized audio news.
- Revamp design and implementation of assistant voice prompts with music (virtual news host).
Endurance International Group
Jul '2016 -
Jun '2019
Software Engineer II, Headquarters, Burlington
Feb '2019 -
Jun '2019
Software Engineer, Headquarters, Burlington
Jan '2018 -
Feb '2019
- Train and cultivate better programming practices introducing concepts of object oriented development and modern engineering practices to fellow developers in Perl.
- Implementation of a system and integration of other legacy systems to ensure GDPR compliance.
- Billing platform overhaul to offload payment processing to an off-site teams payment as a service platform to reduce PCI scope and ensure PCI compliance.
Software Developer, Directi Web Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Jun '2017 -
Jan '2018
- Monetized calls to resolve unmanaged domains on the blackbox DNS system with limited resources.
- Aided modifications to several processes of the platform to meet PCI & SOX compliance requirements.
- Introduced Spring for dependency injection and rearchitected database connection management in revamped code flows defining new programming standards in what was a legacy platform.
- Conducted skill share sessions to train participants on using Spring Boot and Spring Security to secure services in a multi-service architecture proposing different techniques to abstract away various authentication types from service code implementing core business logic.
Assoc. Software Developer, Directi Web Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Jul '2016 -
May '2017
- Revamped local dev environment setup for the Java web application development and wrote a suite of tools to help better efficiency of on-boarding and routine engineering tasks.
- Implemented the system to handle Inter Registrant Transfer Protocol compliance requirement imposed by ICANN in collaboration with multiple brands in the org while catering to staging release helping API resellers prepare for the change all within the planned deadlines.
The Game Changer
Intern, Bangalore
Jul '2015 -
Apr '2016
Designed and developed the backend for a booking platform with payment processing and invoice generation in
Laravel (PHP) along with a website as a single page app in AngularJS and an Android app.
Student Microsoft Development Program
Mentor, MSRIT, Bangalore
Jun '2015 -
Jul '2015
Curated content and conducted an Android app development workshop and mentored students through a one month
period.
Microsoft Build the Shield
Finalists, Hyderabad
March '2015
Qualified for the final rounds of Microsoft BTS 2015 after a nation wide qualifier representing the college.
Student Nokia Development Program
Intern (Project Lead), MSRIT, Bangalore
Jun '2014 -
Jul '2014
Developed a music player app that fetches the mood of different songs and generated playlists given certain
parameters or a song example, guiding and guided, as a team of 4.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Engineering
2012 - 2016
MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka
CGPA: 9.2/10
Higher Secondary School (Computer Science Major)
2010 - 2012
Delhi Public School, Bangalore North, Karnataka
Percentage: 89.4