Kenny Ballou is a Ph.D. student at Boise State University. His research interests are in programming languages, and in particular, abstract semantics and type systems. Kenny has extensive industry experience working as a software developer and recently as a site reliability engineer.

He is an advocate for functional programming languages and is the author of “Learning Elixir”.

He shares the ride on the blue dot around the Sun with his beautiful wife and lovely daughters.

When not researching or spending time with his family, Kenny is contributing what little he can to free and open source software projects.