Kendall Roden
Lead Product Manager at Bright Harbor
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKendall Roden is a Lead Product Manager with nine years of experience building cloud-native developer platforms and developer-first experiences from startup to enterprise. Currently leading product at Bright Harbor to personalize disaster recovery, Kendall previously shaped Diagrid Catalyst and took Azure Container Apps from private preview to GA while focusing on developer experience, Dapr integration, and networking. He combines deep technical fluency from hands-on roles at Microsoft with startup rigor—defining strategy, engaging early adopters, and creating technical content to drive activation and GTM. Based in Austin, he blends product leadership with consulting and customer-facing roles, having supported developer success, cloud migrations, and operational efficiency. Notably, he participates in invite-only product leadership networks, signaling a commitment to peer learning and high-caliber product craft.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Naaman Forest High SchoolBachelors Management Information Systems (MIS), Bachelors Management Information Systems (MIS) at The University of Alabama
Italian
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Github Skills (76)
azure-api-management10
cosmosdb10
serverless10
microservices10
azure-container-apps10
sidecar10
kubernetes10
binding10
pubsub10
docker10
dapr10
event-driven10
state-management10
ecosystem9
golang9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/aks-gbb-officehours
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Used to host information regarding the GBB-hosted, bi-weekly Public AKS Office Hours
Contributions:144 commits, 8 PRs, 132 pushes in 1 year 6 months
hostoffice-hourshostedkubernetesaks
Azure-Samples/containerapps-albums
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Companion repo for Azure Container Apps Tutorials and Samples
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
azure-container-apps
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