Available for Chattanooga-based & remote roles

Hi, I'm Kenston —
I build cloud-native systems
that ship at scale.

Senior software engineer with 10+ years building event-driven services on AWS and Kubernetes. Building SuiteIQ (OR intelligence) & HiveOps (AI agents for SMBs) alongside full-time engineering work.

Chattanooga, TN Open to new roles Senior level · 10+ yrs
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10+
Years engineering
8
Industries shipped in
11
Roles & companies
B.S. + M.S.
CS · in progress
About

Engineer who connects edge to cloud.

I design and ship production systems that bridge hardware, data, and software — and I move fast without breaking the things that matter.

I've spent the last decade building event-driven, cloud-native services across logistics, supply chain, healthcare, fintech, and blockchain. Most of that work has lived on AWS and Kubernetes, with Kafka, SNS/SQS, and Temporal.io moving high-frequency events through distributed systems.

I like the messy seams — where a robot, a PLC, or an industrial sensor needs to talk to a clean REST API. Those are the systems I want to build more of: Unified Namespaces, MQTT pipelines, time-series stores, and CI/CD that lets a small team ship like a big one.

Outside of full-time work I'm shipping two products. SuiteIQ brings live OR-turnover intelligence and AI-assisted scheduling to hospital surgical suites — Go & GraphQL on AWS Bedrock, deployed via Pulumi. HiveOps is a multi-tenant AI-agent platform for service-business SMBs — ten specialized agents, a real intelligence layer (brand-voice evals, prompt versioning, kill switch), and a custom voice gateway built on Twilio + Deepgram + ElevenLabs.

I'm a daily user of Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot — not as toys, but as leverage. I prototype faster, refactor older code more confidently, and keep documentation alive instead of dead. I'm equally comfortable owning the manifest, the API, and the dashboard.

Based in Chattanooga, open everywhere. Equally interested in greenfield infra at a fast-moving SaaS team and in industrial-software work — factories, robotics, energy, logistics — where software actually moves atoms.
Skills

A toolkit built for distributed systems.

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What I'm building.

Two products I'm building right now — one in the operating room, one in the back office.

SuiteIQ

Founder & Engineer · surgical intelligence
In production

Operating-room intelligence platform: live OR-turnover tracking, AI-assisted surgeon scheduling, and analytics for hospital surgical suites. Investor-demoed with SafeHarbour; deployed on AWS via Pulumi.

GoGraphQLReactAWS BedrockPulumiCloudFront

HiveOps

Co-founder & CTO · AI agents for SMBs
In beta

Multi-tenant AI-agent platform for service-business SMBs (med spas, gyms, salons). Ten specialized agents — front desk, DM, scheduling, content, reputation, analytics, billing — backed by a real intelligence layer: brand-voice evals, prompt-version isolation, kill switch, and a custom voice gateway over Twilio Media Streams + Deepgram + ElevenLabs.

PythonFastAPINext.jsSupabaseUpstash RedisAWS BedrockTwilioDeepgram
Experience

A decade of shipping.

Most recent first. Tap a role to see the work.

Education

Always learning.

M.S., Computer Science

In progress
Continuing education

B.S., Computer Science — Software Systems

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2009 – 2014 · Minor: Business Administration

Certifications & Continuing Education

Ultimate Go Hands-On Introduction: JavaScript The DOM in JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, React

Let's build something.

Whether you're hiring, collaborating, or just want to chat about Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, or 3D-printed buildings — I'd love to hear from you.