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Jon Kennedy

Jon Kennedy is Chief Technology Officer at Quickbase, a role he took up in January 2025. Based in Marlborough, he lists Amazon Web Services, artificial intelligence, leadership and team building among his areas of expertise.

He joined Quickbase in September 2020 as Vice President of Engineering and became Senior Vice President of Engineering in February 2022. Before that he was at Amazon Web Services, where he was a senior software development manager from May 2018 and then head of service for AWS DataSync from January 2020. He spent the preceding years at SimpliVity Corporation, joining in April 2014 as Director of Control Plane Engineering and serving as VP Software Engineering from September 2016. Earlier he was Director of Engineering at Sepaton from 2009 to 2014, and a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2002 to 2009.

Kennedy studied physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 2000, and took a master's degree in physics at Boston University in 2002.

Career

Roles
  • QuickbaseChief Technology OfficerJan 2025 – Present
  • QuickbaseSenior Vice President Of EngineeringFeb 2022 – Jan 2025
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)#294factoryAWS DataSync Head of ServiceJan 2020 – Sep 2020
  • QuickbaseVice President Of EngineeringSep 2020 – May 2022
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)#294factorySenior Software Development ManagerMay 2018 – Jan 2020
  • SimpliVity CorporationVP Software EngineeringSep 2016 – Jan 2020
  • SimpliVity CorporationDirector of Control Plane EngineeringApr 2014 – Sep 2016
  • SepatonDirector of EngineeringAug 2009 – Mar 2014
  • MIT Lincoln LaboratoryTechnical StaffJan 2002 – Aug 2009
Education

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