Brian Kennedy
Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Kennedy is a Distinguished Engineer with over 15 years of experience delivering high-quality, customer-facing web applications and leading complex technology initiatives. Based in Austin, Texas, he holds a BA in Computer Science from UT Austin and blends hands-on development with strategic architectural leadership. He brings a broad full-stack toolkit—Python, JavaScript, PHP, and Java—along with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, XGBoost, scikit-learn, and pandas, plus frontend (React, Next.js) and backend (FastAPI, Django, Laravel) expertise. His cloud and infrastructure capabilities span AWS (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, S3, EKS, ECS), Kubernetes, and edge platforms such as Cloudflare and Akamai, with search ecosystems in Elasticsearch and Solr. In the last decade-plus, he has driven architecture and delivery at Capital One as a Distinguished Engineer since 2024, with prior impact at Santé, RetailMeNot, Spot Insurance, OneID, Optaros, and Halliburton. He is a relentless learner who thrives on solving complex problems and turning ambitious requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (58)
flask-restful8
flask-application8
amazon8
ioc-container7
python37
factory7
amazon-web-services7
python-37
aws7
sqlalchemy7
python-27
singleton7
command-line-interface7
web-services7
flask7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brianpkennedy/databases
May 2020 - May 2020
Async database support for Python. 🗄
Contributions:2 branches in 1 day
pythonasynciopeeweedatabasessqlite
brianpkennedy/pandas
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
pythondatalabeled-datamanipulationdataframes
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