Kingdon is a Ruby on Rails app dev at University of Notre Dame's Office of Information Technology. He is also a PaaS and cluster enthusiast, and a developer on Team Hephy, the Deis Workflow fork. Kingdon is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology's Computing and Information Sciences program, where he has presented many times before at BarCamp Roc. He is an active member of the open source community, with 15 years of work experience. In his career so far, he has also been an IT manager and a Chief Information Officer at a national market research company.