Ken has twenty years of experience in the IT industry. He started his career fixing computers at the University of Pittsburgh and held several different positions there. He then did a short stint as a defense contractor writing code on various projects ranging from simple signal deconfliction to complex control systems. Just before joining Atlassian he served ten years in public service as a civil servant within the Intelligence community working to build and maintain one of the largest and most complex multi-tenant Hadoop cloud systems.

Ken has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a certified flight instructor and serves on the board for his local flying club.