Kenneth Montgomery

Senior full stack engineerAustin, Texas

Experience

2020–present

NWN

Application Consultant, Senior Full Stack Engineering

  • Built and owned self-service Okta tooling used by customer experience managers to migrate customer users over several years.
  • Ran migrations of 500K+ records with rollback checkpoints and reliable API sync.
  • Led platform consolidation across two merged organizations, aligning data models and deciding what to retain or retire.
An NWN home office beside a bedroom nook, with the same person now seated at the desk in shorts and a button-up.

2018–2020

Creative Distress

Senior Gameplay Programmer

  • Built gameplay systems and C++ tools for an Unreal Engine simulation.
  • Profiled rendering and game logic to eliminate hitches on mobile.
  • Led sprint planning and made build-versus-cut decisions under deadlines.
A small Creative Distress office with the arriving hoodie-wearing worker seated at a desk, four desks in a row, an exercise-ball coworker, and game systems.

2018–2019

Common Media

Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Built web applications for government, e-commerce, and education clients.
  • Developed a real-time analytics dashboard for Lux Research.
  • Benchmarked data freshness and chose WebSockets over polling.
An L-shaped living room with the arriving cyclist seated at a desk, a sofa, a Wii, a cold brew keg, and stairs to an upper landing.

2013–2016

HERMETIC

Mechanical / Project Engineer

  • Automated technical and sales documentation with Visual Basic.
  • Mentored new engineers as they learned the work.
  • Wrote onboarding documentation to shorten ramp-up.

My first job.

A plain, windowless engineering office with an LCD and the arriving worker seated at the old wood desk in a button-up and chinos.