Arik Cohen
Senior Principal Engineer at The Walt Disney Studios
Chiefland, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorArik Cohen is a Senior Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering backend and data systems across entertainment and consumer tech. He has repeatedly returned to The Walt Disney Studios in escalating engineering roles, demonstrating deep domain knowledge in media-scale systems and a knack for simplifying complex problems—hence his motto, "Simple is beautiful." Arik's background spans startups and large studios (Strava, Codecademy, Smithsonian Channel, Sony), giving him both hands-on coding chops and strategic technical leadership. He excels at turning messy legacy stacks into pragmatic, maintainable platforms and mentoring teams through those transitions. Based in Chiefland, Florida, he combines the discipline of early IT leadership in Israel with extensive U.S. studio experience, a mix that informs practical, production-focused solutions. Colleagues would note his preference for elegant simplicity and steady progress over flashy tech trends.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
vector-search10
cms10
dashboard10
messaging10
postgresql10
cfml10
graphiql10
converting10
debezium10
databases10
proxy10
vector-database10
spring-security10
expr10
semantic-search10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
okayrunner/piper-pipelines
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 167 pushes in 1 year 5 months
runabol/tork-docs
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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