Stephen Kennedy
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Kennedy is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building backend systems and APIs for companies ranging from startups to large enterprises. He has led technical projects at Ocado and Goodlord, shaped data-op APIs at Lenses.io, and most recently joined PayPal after roles at SiriusXM and OVO focusing on Scala and distributed systems. Comfortable across JVM and functional Scala codebases, he pairs a rigorous testing and deployment mindset (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) with hands-on mentoring and process improvements in agile teams. As a former founder/director of Infinite Waves Ltd, he brings entrepreneurial thinking to product-driven engineering decisions. Outside work he’s drawn to elegant design and usability, and he’s an avid long-distance cyclist—a hobby that mirrors his preference for long-term, resilient solutions. Notably, his career shows a steady shift from low-level systems to scalable cloud-native architectures while keeping developer experience and team growth front and center.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (80)
effects10
http-server10
asynchronous10
akka-http10
sttp9
akka9
zio9
stream9
self-documenting9
pluggable9
http9
http-client9
openapi9
functional-programming9
http4s9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
skennedy/photon-ui
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
Web client for photon-server
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
web-clientphoton
lensesio/lenses-alerts-plugin
Jun 2019 - Jan 2022
Defines interface for pluggable lenses alert services integration, along with some officially supported implementations.
Contributions:19 releases, 49 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 7 months
alertimplementationssupportedlensespluggable
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