Ken Arnold
Code-wallah at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Arnold is a veteran software architect and engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building distributed systems, object-oriented platforms, and developer-facing APIs. An original architect of Jini and lead architect/tech lead for JavaSpaces, he has held senior roles from CTO of Industrious Media to architect positions at Sun and Apollo and currently works at Google as a hands-on "Code-wallah." He combines deep systems design chops with a passion for human-centered APIs, usability, and provisional UI tooling (author of the Napkin Look-and-Feel for Swing). Ken also has an early-Internet hacker pedigree—co-authoring the classic game rogue and inventing enduring libraries—plus a public-facing practice of writing and speaking that treats technical work as travelogue. His current interests include scaling direct democracy tools to national levels and applying human factors to programming language and API design.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., Computer Science, A.B., Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (14)
java8
compile-time8
simulation7
window-management7
static-analysis7
swift6
simulator6
macos5
minecraft2
migration-tool2
capitalization1
google1
google-docs1
code-behind1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kcrca/kcrca
Jan 2015 - Mar 2026
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 11 years 4 months
kcrca/philter
Jan 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 105 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
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