I'm Kenan Spencer, a Senior Full Stack .NET Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade web and cloud applications across healthcare, HR/payroll, SaaS platforms, and technology consulting domains. I translate complex business requirements into clean technical solutions, mentor engineers, and drive projects from architecture through production. I specialize in .NET, modern frontend frameworks, cloud-native architectures on Azure and AWS, CI/CD automation, and data-driven design for secure, high-performance systems. I enjoy collaborating with product, QA, design, and clients to deliver reliable solutions that scale.

Kenan Spencer

I'm Kenan Spencer, a Senior Full Stack .NET Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade web and cloud applications across healthcare, HR/payroll, SaaS platforms, and technology consulting domains. I translate complex business requirements into clean technical solutions, mentor engineers, and drive projects from architecture through production. I specialize in .NET, modern frontend frameworks, cloud-native architectures on Azure and AWS, CI/CD automation, and data-driven design for secure, high-performance systems. I enjoy collaborating with product, QA, design, and clients to deliver reliable solutions that scale.

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I’m Kenan Spencer, a Senior Full Stack .NET Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling enterprise-grade web and cloud applications across healthcare, HR/payroll, SaaS platforms, and technology consulting domains. I translate complex business requirements into clean technical solutions, mentor engineers, and drive projects from architecture through production.

I specialize in .NET, modern frontend frameworks, cloud-native architectures on Azure and AWS, CI/CD automation, and data-driven design for secure, high-performance systems. I enjoy collaborating with product, QA, design, and clients to deliver reliable solutions that scale.

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack .NET Engineer at Tevpro
October 1, 2022 - Present
Led development of enterprise and SaaS applications using .NET 7+ including ASP.NET Core Web APIs, Minimal APIs, and MVC to support microservices with gRPC, admin tools, and customer portals. Built frontends with Angular, React, and Next.js; implemented real-time features with SignalR; designed event-driven workflows using cloud-native systems (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS); built data services for AI/ML consumption via Azure Functions and Azure OpenAI; defined Terraform IaC for Azure/AWS resources; containerized with Docker and deployed via Kubernetes, Azure App Service, and AWS; built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps; implemented observability with Serilog, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, and OpenTelemetry; mentored junior engineers and collaborated with product, QA, and clients.
Senior .NET Engineer at Paycom
March 1, 2019 - September 1, 2022
Led modernization upgrading applications from .NET Core to .NET 5/6 and transforming legacy ASP.NET Web Forms into API-driven ASP.NET Core architectures. Designed and maintained ASP.NET Core Web APIs for Angular/React SPAs; integrated Kafka-based event streaming; built SignalR real-time payroll processing updates; implemented JWT/OAuth/OpenID Connect authentication; optimized SQL Server data models with EF Core and Dapper; created Python tooling for data processing and automation; authored Terraform IaC; integrated with Azure DevOps pipelines; automated tests with xUnit/MSTest and Moq/NSubstitute; implemented monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
Software Engineer at Vizient Inc.
September 1, 2016 - February 1, 2019
Built healthcare analytics platforms using early ASP.NET Core MVC and Web APIs; migrated enterprise portals and CMS-style apps from ASP.NET Web Forms to modern MVC; implemented role-based authorization, validation, and auditing; designed RESTful APIs backed by SQL Server and PostgreSQL for reporting-heavy workloads; integrated HL7 and X12 healthcare messaging; wrote unit and integration tests; adopted DI, configuration, and structured logging; deployed to cloud/hybrid environments.
.NET Engineer at Kyruus Health
January 1, 2013 - August 1, 2016
Developed web applications using ASP.NET MVC on .NET Framework for provider directories, admin tools, and operational dashboards; implemented business logic with LINQ/ADO.NET; structured code with service-layer and mediator-style patterns; implemented early real-time communication via polling and WebSocket; contributed to code quality through unit testing and refactoring.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree at Becker College
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2012

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Professional Services, Software & Internet