Ken Finnigan

@kenfinnigan
Software Engineer
Pembroke, MA, USA
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I'm Ken, an engineer and author that loves learning new things. At the moment that's learning Observability. I’m focused on OpenTelemetry for Lumigo

I'm open to

open source contributions,

making introductions,

speaking on podcasts,

brainstorming,

beta testing new products,

partnering on side projects,

participating in user research,

freelance roles,

co-founding a company,

part time roles,

just chatting,

and advising companies.

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May 2023 - Present

OpenTelemetry Architect, lumigo

Oct 2021 - May 2023

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Workday

Apr 2018 - Oct 2021

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jul 2013 - Apr 2018

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

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Super excited to have joined Lumigo to work on their product and contribute to OpenTelemetry!

First foray into Golang for OpenSLO project! https://github.com/OpenSLO/OpenSLO/pull/113 and https://github.com/OpenSLO/oslo/pull/100

Beyond excited for my latest book, covering Reactive Java with Quarkus, to be available at O'Reilly! Check it out at https://oreil.ly/HcjbR

Excited to have finished the draft for all chapters of Reactive Systems in Java! Clement and I explain all the great features in Quarkus 2.0 related to reactive programming and event-driven archite...