Kenny Kerr is a founding employee and Chief Software Architect at PlateSpin Ltd. where he designs and builds new products and helps drive the technical direction for PlateSpin’s market-leading product family. Prior to PlateSpin, Kenny has worked for leading software companies in Africa, the United States, and Canada.

Having entered the software industry as a teenager, he quickly proved his capabilities and aptitude for software craftsmanship and joined a team responsible for the integration of disparate architectures coming out of mergers and acquisitions spanning continents. While working for Ixchange Technology Holdings in South Africa, Ixchange acquired leading U.S. software companies Bendata and Goldmine and Kenny was sent to the U.S. to integrate the companies’ flagship products. The result is known today as FrontRange Solutions.

With a specialty in commercial software development, he focuses on designing distributed systems, open APIs, performance tuning, Windows systems programming, and most notably secure design and programming practices around C++.

Kenny is the author of articles published in the C/C++ Users Journal, MSDN Magazine, as well as regular feature articles on the Microsoft Developer Network, including the acclaimed article C++: The Most Powerful Language for .NET Framework Programming (July 2004). His blog is a popular source for information on advanced programming topics and includes the highly popular series of articles introducing the Microsoft Intermediate Language that is at the heart of the .NET Framework’s Common Language Runtime.