Kenny holds a Master of Computer Science and B.S. in Computer Science degree from North Carolina State University. He spent almost six years at IBM working in areas of build support, automated tooling, product development, and product support. He joined SAS in 2014 and has been developing IT automation services using Django. One of his biggest projects was building a REST API for automated firewall rule additions using a combination of Python and Django. He actively participates in his local Python users group and has previously presented at DjangoCon US 2014 and PyCon US 2015.