Jon Kennedy

Jon Kennedy is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Quickbase, where he is responsible for leading all aspects of software development, platform operations and engineering processes in support Quickbase’s technology and innovation roadmap.

Jon brings more than two decades of experience building technical organizations to help companies successfully grow. Prior to Quickbase, he was at Amazon Web Services, where he led the development, launch and growth of a new data and migration service, AWS DataSync. While at AWS he also managed all aspects of software development and operations for the AWS Storage Gateway Volume/Tape Service. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Software Development at SimpliVity, the leader in hyperconverged infrastructure until it was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he was responsible for the development, release and delivery of the Simplivity’s OmniStack software. Jon was also a Director of Engineering at Sepaton, acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, and a Technical Staff member at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Jon has a B.S. in Physics from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute as well as a master’s degree in Physics from Boston University.