Kenzi Connor
Engineering Leader
- High-compliance spaces: fin/edu/health/gov tech
- High-throughput, low-latency, low-downtime systems
- Management of cross-functional teams and cross-team collabs
- Resilience in high-pressure situations: rush jobs & very high-profile clients
- Responsible for client relationships and all aspects of businesses
- Location
- CA 94602, Oakland, California, United States
- resume@knz.ai
- Phone
- +1 (415) 309-2256
- Website
- https://knz.ai
- knzai
Experience
– present
CEO & CTO at Cloud City Development
Highlights
- Founded and grew 35 person software design + development firm
- Principal Engineer and CTO consultant for clients
- Built teams that IPO’ed, got acquired and secured $100s of millions in funding
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Staff Engineer & Engineering Manager - Consultant at PivotBio
Highlights
- Maintained and improved their existing core Rails + Python LIMS
- Managed the team who took over LIMS maintenance as well as their geospatial viewer
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CTO & Advisor at OKCupid Labs (Match.com)
Highlights
- Built team from 0 to mid-30 headcount within 7 months of initial engagement
- Weekly strategy sessions for dozens of properties, with tens of millions of users
- Managed full redesign and re-architecture of the largest of these properties
- Established an effective engineering team that could continue to deliver after I left
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Senior Software Engineer at Pivotal Labs
Highlights
- Ramped up quickly on 4 projects in 7 months, contributing effectively immediately
- Built developer infrastructure for high-scale, no-downtime migration from VPS to AWS
- Debugged mass-scale throughput/IO concurrency limitations
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Yieldbuild at Senior Software Engineer
Highlights
- Co-authored nginx & Rack handlers w/ billions of monthly uniques
- Built primary reporting/data site with dynamic data-viz in Flex
- Framework and infrastructure updates with a zero-downtime requirement
- Optimized payloads of .js within individual IP packet size constraints
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InfoSauce at CEO & CTO
Highlights
- Co-founded and grew 10 person software design + development firm
- Principal Engineer and CTO consultant for clients
- Continued to develop high-profile (NDA) banking clients
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BridgeLine Software at Lead Developer
Highlights
- Head dev for Wall Street/financial work with global roll-outs
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Developer at Hall Kinion
Highlights
- Rebuilt mortgage services app from Access DB to ASP
Technology Production Assistant at University of Utah
Highlights
- Built technology-assisted curriculum (video, multimedia, online) for professors
Education
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Bachelor, Honors - incomplete in Computer Science from University of Utah
Courses
- Minors: Math, Physics, Chemistry
References
A sharp technological and business acumen, coupled with a resounding passion for startup entrepreneurs realizing their full potential, Kenzi is nothing short of an amazing CTO advisor.
Kenzi is an excellent technical leader, providing well thought out solutions, careful team guidance, and quick and valuable results. She also handles the challenges of startup life with humor and wit, which is a boon to all working with her.
Skills
- Backend Development
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- Frontend Development
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- Data
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- Infra/Ops/Scale
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- Bioinformatics
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Volunteer
Board Member at SF Pride
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Mentor at Railsbridge
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Mentor at Rails Girls
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Mentor at Dev Bootcamp
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Interests
- Current
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- Former
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