Kekkonen Kekkonen
Uber Tech Lead Staff Software Engineer (SWE-SRE) at Google
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolKekkonen Kekkonen is an SRE-focused tech lead and staff software engineer with 16 years of experience, currently leading cross-functional platform and ecosystem reliability efforts at Google (officially an Uber Tech Lead). He has driven planet-scale monitoring and continuous evaluation of critical user journeys across Android, Chrome, Play, and Photos, and previously built acquisition-critical platforms and next-gen infrastructure at startups and scale-ups. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and strategic leader, he blends kernel- and network-level systems work with product-facing reliability for consumer services. Based in Oakland, he has a track record of shipping distributed systems and orchestration tooling from early-stage startups to one of the world’s largest engineering organizations, and often operates at the intersection of platform engineering and long-term business resilience.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Aalto University
Github Skills (41)
socket-io10
kubernetes10
docker10
socket10
go10
backend10
objective-c9
python9
csharp9
php9
scheduling9
grpc9
cpp9
google-cloud8
ruby8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
madari/pusher.go
Jul 2011 - Nov 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 4 months
golangpushserver-pushgoogle-gohttp-server
madari/go-socket.io
May 2010 - Feb 2019
A Socket.IO backend implementation written in Go
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years 10 months
backendgosocketsocket-iosocketio
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