Ken Finnigan Email & Phone Number

Pembroke, Ma, Us

Irvine, California, Us

I'm a Council member of the Commonhaus Foundation.https://www.commonhaus.org/

- Developed a mobile app with ReactJS, TypeScript, Ionic Framework, and Ionic Capacitor.- Architected system components using AWS CloudFormation, creating a scalable infrastructure with minimal deployment time. Including API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Lambda.- Developed and deployed serverless Java functions with Quarkus for AWS Lambda and API Gateway, simplifying the development process with individually deployable components.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Extended OpenTelemetry distributions to capture more data, such as request/response and messaging payloads, reducing developer debugging time by 20%. - Developed automation for packaging and updating of a custom OTeL Collector build, saving 2 days of developer time every month.- Worked with customers to resolve issues in enabling OpenTelemetry instrumentation with our Kubernetes operator (Go) in their environments.- Contributed fixes and improvements to Python based Observability SaaS product.

Pleasanton, California, Us

Architect responsible for metrics and logs platforms. Collaborate with 30+ engineers across several teams.- Co-authored a paper for ACM SIGOPS, Pharos: The Observability Platform at Workday, establishing an industry-recognized standard for monitoring distributed systems.- Designed and built a GitOps process for validating, generating, and deploying Alerts/Dashboards to Grafana with TektonCD, simplifying the developer experience and reducing manual errors.- Led cross-functional efforts to introduce SLOs and improve general SRE practices across Workday, helping developers understand what's important with their services.- Drove observability data and governance standards, ensuring data alignment across services and teams, simplifying the dashboard creation process.- Orchestrated complex multi-project dependencies, ensuring on-time delivery across departments through collaboration with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and leadership.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Drove adoption of OpenTelemetry across Middleware products, aligning all observability data produced by the products.- Spoke at conferences, including JavaOne, Devoxx UK, and others, educating thousands of Java developers on building reliable and scalable distributed systems.- Co-founded the Quarkus project, enabling faster startup times for Java microservices, helping to reduce cloud infrastructure costs by at least 15%.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Authored several books, including "Reactive Systems in Java" and "Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus, and MicroProfile", educating 10,000+ developers globally on developing distributed systems with Java.- Founded SmallRye and Eclipse MicroProfile, shaping industry standards for microservices development with Enterprise Java.- Co-founded Thorntail (WildFly Swarm), an open source Java framework for microservice development with Java EE. Led a team of 10 engineers developing Thorntail.- Co-founded LiveOak, an open source mBaaS built on Netty for performant processing of API requests from mobile devices. Led a team of 15 engineers developing LiveOak

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Member of JSR-329 (JSF Bridge) and JSR-344 (JSF 2.2) Expert Groups. Helping to define the JSF and Portlet Bridge specifications, driving innovation and ideas into the specification• Project Lead on JBoss Portlet Bridge and developer on GateIn. Responsible for improving JBoss Portlet Bridge to enable the use of over 100 RichFaces components within a portlet. Architected and developed a CDI scope for portlets that enabled CDI beans to be used within portlet code.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

- Led a migration of over 120 projects from Oracle App Server to EAP 5.x, reducing customer downtime by 25% and mentoring developers on the new platform.

London, Uk, Gb

- Led the design and execution of the HBoS account migration, ensuring zero customer disruption during the cutover through management of complex event timelines. Worked with teams across many functional areas to ensure a successful migration.

London, Uk, Gb

- Guided architectural designs through governance reviews, achieving faster approval times and ensuring compliance with corporate standards.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

- Mentored developers in J2EE and JSF best practices, raising code quality and reducing defects.- Advised the Technical Architect on REST service design, resulting in a 15% improvement in system performance and simplified development.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

- Mentored developers in Chordiant and JSF best practices, reducing code defects and reducing implementation delays.- Customized work item queue solutions to meet client needs, improving task processing efficiency by 30%.

1000 Brussel/Bruxelles, Be

- Analyzed system performance and implemented refactoring strategies, reducing processing time by 10%.- Mentored developers in best practices for Chordiant tool usage, reducing implementation delays by 20%.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, Nl

- Turned around a failing project by identifying key issues and mentoring the team, delivering the project on time and within budget.- Guided the Product Manager on options impacting performance and user experience for a customer-facing loan processing application.

London, England, Gb

- Developed UML process flows from business requirements, streamlining production fixes for the retail loan system and ensuring FSA regulatory compliance.- Handled production issues and fixes for a retail loan system. Worked with operations on improving processes for deployments and issue resolution.

Led a team of 8 engineers developing a CRM system.- Designed and developed a CRM system for managing music royalty collection and distribution.- Improved developer experience through continuous integration practices, reducing build times by 40%- Developed framework patterns for implementing orthogonal concerns in services, such as logging, improving developer productivity.

South Jordan, Utah, Us

- Mentored peers on J2EE frameworks, raising overall team proficiency and improving client satisfaction.- Organized and ran training sessions for clients.

- Developed an XML messaging system, cutting data processing time by 50%, while contributing to the ACORD life insurance standards.- Designed and implemented a continuous build pipeline for the product, reducing build time by 20% and providing reproducible builds.

London, Gb

- Architected customer systems handling thousands of users, enhancing performance and user satisfaction by 20%.- Developed a JNI wrapper around a C++ DLL quotation engine to use with a web interface, increasing revenue for personal insurance products by 25% through new lines of business.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Improved support team efficiency by capturing repeat issue details with their solution, reducing ticket resolution times by 40%