Ken Bacon is a Director of Engineering, Daily Fantasy Sports at Draftkings, Inc.. He possess expertise in software development, agile methodologies, software project management, software engineering, scrum and 33 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Ken is one the best managers I’ve ever had. Once Ken and I built a relationship where we both knew we could trust each other; he empowered me to lead my team to success. Ken is very easy to talk to and I trust him not to throw me under the bus. I do not fear discussing failure with Ken and I feel that this is very important. Ken works hard to communicate failure properly and helps our team work towards ensuring we do not make the same mistakes twice. Ken and I both say our favorite meeting is the retrospective. The reason for this is we get to talk about what we did well and what we could do better. Ken's attendance and active participation in our team’s retrospective demonstrates his desire for constant improvement. His willingness to ensure his team’s success and improvement is commendable. Ken is not the shoulder-tapping manager who constantly disrupts work. Instead he empowers us to be successful in our work by learning our strengths and thoroughly understanding the tasks at hand. Some managers do not trust their subordinates and micro manage them to death. Ken understands who he can trust to make things happen and simply ensures everything is running smoothly. This is my personal favorite management style. Ken makes sure he understands what’s going on and our ability to complete the work at hand. With this knowledge, he empowers us to work more efficiently with less stress overall. I have nothing but great things to say about Ken! I have enjoyed working with him immensely. He is an asset to our company and it has been a pleasure to work with him." and "Ken is a nice person and great manager to work for, specially cool under pressure. I am grateful that I worked for him for 5 years at Phase Forward and Oracle."