Arthur Ketchel II
Consultant, Software Engineer, and relator in Fort Mill, SC
Strategic Technical Leader, Entrepreneur & Venture Architect — Building the High-Performance Systems and High-Performance Teams with AI-Augmented processes and tools utilizing Scalable Blueprints for the Future of Work.
Executive Summary
Seasoned leader with 22+ years of experience bridging the gap between complex engineering and business value. A full-stack engineer at heart, I specialize in architecting modern SaaS platforms from the ground up and scaling engineering organizations from lean startups to teams of 80+.
- 🔭 I'm currently working on architecting a suite of next-gen SaaS tools utilizing autonomous coding agents and agentic secure software development lifecycle workflows.
- 🏗️ In Development: See projects on aketchel.com or github.com/aketchel
- 🌱 Exploring: The intersection of AI and productivity—specifically autonomous coding agents (OpenClaw, Claude Code), MCP, and local LLM orchestration.
- 👯 Collaborating: Always open to discussing open-source contributions, SaaS products, entrepenurial ventures or advising innovative startups - especially tech focused startups.
- 🤔 Connecting, collaboration and conservation always welcome with like-minded entrepreneurs, investors, and software engineers.
- 💬 Ask me about: IT consulting, software engineering, technology leadership, cloud architecture, agile delivery, real estate, scaling software development teams and entrepreneurship.
- 📫 How to reach me: (803)524-2802 (cell) · [email protected] (email)
- 😄 Pronouns: He / Him
- ⚡ Fun fact: I've led engineering teams across industries including fintech, nonprofit tech, freight, and insurance. Beyond the IDE, I hold real estate licenses in both North Carolina and South Carolina and an insurance license in ** South Carolina ** and am an avid supporter of nonprofits including but not limited to volunteer emergency (911) rescue organizations and local youth scouting leadership.
🧰 Skills & Expertise
Leadership & Delivery
- Engineering team leadership (5–80+ engineers), veteran of agile/SAFe and "Extreme Ownership" frameworks.
- Operations: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), DevOps maturity, CI/CD strategy, post-deployment support/monitoring, performance tuning and incident management.
- Mentorship: Developing career paths for junior engineers, senior staff engineers and architects through engineering managers and directors.
Architecture & Engineering
- Full-stack: C# / .NET, Java, Python, React, Node.js, TypeScript, PHP, VB.NET, etc.
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, Aurora, Lambda, CloudWatch), Azure
- Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, DB2
- Patterns: Multi-tenant SaaS, Microservices, Event-Driven Design, RESTful APIs.
AI, ML & Future Tech
- Tools: GitHub Copilot, OpenClaw, LangChain, Ollama, Agentic Workflows, autonomous coding agents, Machine Learning, etc.
- Emerging: Exploring Quantum Finance applications and machine learning for data analysis.
DevOps, Observability & Tooling
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, TravisCI, TFS / Jenkins, Ansible
- Monitoring: New Relic, Cloudflare, Splunk, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Pendo
- ALM: Jira (Atlassian), Azure DevOps / TFS, Git (GitHub, Bitbucket, TFS)
Other
- Entrepreneurship — founded and ran Majistic Inc. (web hosting + café) for 8 years
- Real Estate — licensed Realtor in NC & SC (Fort Mill, SC area)
- B.S. Computer Science, University of South Carolina