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Christopher J. Kenyon
Senior Software Engineer
A Computer & Electrical engineer with 8 years of experience in various tech stacks - from shipping robotics and consumer hardware to building full application/web stacks. Well versed in complex system challenges and building quality infrastructure across all of those projects for test automation, release validation, and deployment. Looking for the opportunity to excel as a SWE Manager or Senior Engineer.
cjkenyon117@gmail.com
603-965-6571
San Francisco, USA
linkedin.com/in/christopher-kenyon-702b866a
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer III
Google LLC - AR/VR
09/2020 - Present
San Francisco, CA
  • Tech lead for power and battery life reporting, validation, and budgeting efforts for the 1000 person organization, including register/clock/PLL characterization for a multi-core SoC.
  • Cross-functionally led infrastructure efforts across hardware, software, Android, and custom OS teams for consumer device quality and telemetry.
  • Benchmarked power, battery, usage, and latency performance across CUJs and synthetic data pipelines.
  • Configured and scaled a lab of 15 devices with power instrumentation for org-wide availability.
  • Constructed entire automated system and integration testing pipeline for multi-device testbeds with gigabyte-scale measurement.
Software Engineer II
Google LLC - Google Cloud
01/2019 - 09/2020
Sunnyvale, CA
  • Tech lead for Quality initiatives of 30-engineer team.
  • Constructed 3 large scale hermetic test infrastructures and test suites in cross team initiatives on complex projects.
  • Managed 13 engineers in engagements for Engineering Excellence rotations for a total of 15 months of TL/management.
  • Optimized release processes and project health with state of the art Google-scale global deployment infrastructures.
Software Engineer I
Digital Mortar, Inc.
08/2017 - 09/2018
San Rafael, CA
  • Productionized the .NET MVP application to a secure and scalable production-ready product on Azure.
  • Generated complex analytical C#, Android, and IoT projects from concept to user-delivered features.
  • Interfaced with partners and clients to assess needs, and generated solutions from beginning to end to solve those needs.
VP of Engineering & Co-Founder
Treehoppr, Inc. (Sold to Deel Inc.)
09/2017 - 08/2018
San Francisco, CA
  • Founded and lead engineering of this startup, creating technical partnerships across companies, and operating quickly and on a tight budget.
  • Architected an elegantly designed full web stack application from the ground up with Vue.js, Django, AWS with secure fintech integrations.
  • Implemented scalable and safe deployment processes, including blue/green deployment on AWS Elastic Beanstalk on a custom VPC.
  • Managed a rapid development process as the head of engineering, with a user-centric development cycle.
Software Co-op Engineer
Kumu Networks, Inc.
01/2016 - 07/2016
Sunnyvale, CA
  • Designed and built a hardware & software automation test infrastructure for complex next generation wireless networking systems to measure RF signals at varied frequencies and configurations.
  • Executed projects with tangible results, such as the reverse engineering external protocols into a Python driver, saving $250,000.
Work Experience (cont)
Software and Electrical R&D Co-op Engineer
Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc.
01/2015 - 11/2015
Waltham, MA
  • Refactored a monolithic C# architecture to a modernized state machine architecture as the principal developer for the 2nd generation product's .NET teleoperations application.
  • Developed and implemented systems of C firmware on ARM processors in a complex robotic system using custom CAN communication.
  • Lead a team of 5 interns.
SKILLS

Application Languages

Python

Java

C#

C++

C

Go

Web Technologies

HTML5

CSS / SASS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Performance

Accessibility

Database and Caches

Proto Schema

Indexing

SQL

Key-Value

Distributed Concensus

Development Operations

Automated Testing

Lab Orchestration

Release Pipelines

Code Readability

Feature Flagging

Monitoring/Alerting

GCP

AWS

Azure

Robotic/Device Technologies

ROS

Prototyping

Hardware/SoC bringup

Power Validation

Comms (I2C, PWM, SPI, UART, etc.)

Education
BS in Computer Engineering (EE/CE) and Computer Science
Northeastern University
09/2012 - 05/2017
3.81 GPA, 3.91 Major GPA, Dean's Scholarship, Dean's List
First Place in Senior Capstone Competition 2017
Portfolio
Custom-built and styled from scratch.

For more information, such as work history pre-2015, see LinkedIn or my personal portfolio at http://chriskenyon.me

For an easier-to-read version of this résumé, see http://chriskenyon.me/resume