Ken Caruso
Chief Engineer at Turngate
Fall City, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKen Caruso is an empathetic, hands-on Chief Engineer with ~27 years of experience and two decades building SaaS and IaaS platforms. He has led large engineering organizations and architected cloud and infrastructure services at scale—driving OCI’s regional expansion, shipping GPU and managed Kubernetes offerings, and supporting software for five Astra rocket launches. A builder at heart, he shipped industry-first products from Nebula’s private cloud appliance to early mesh wireless platforms used by MIT and BBN, and holds multiple patents in distributed systems resilience. Ken combines strong ownership and servant leadership with pragmatic infrastructure expertise across Linux, Kubernetes, cloud automation, and embedded systems. He’s comfortable scaling teams through acquisitions and hypergrowth while keeping a customer-focused mindset and consistent delivery cadence. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also passed CFA Level I, reflecting a disciplined, cross-domain approach to risk and decision-making.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (96)
sports-data10
sdk9
api9
modeling9
financial9
bolt8
flask8
packer-builder8
finance8
slack-api8
file-format7
websocket7
django7
oracle-cloud7
chatops7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ipl31/mr_market
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Finance oriented slackbot in python
Contributions:20 PRs, 197 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
financepythonslackbotbitcoin
ipl31/fmpsdk
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
SDK for Financial Modeling Prep's (FMP) API
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 5 months
financialapifinancial-modelingsdkfinance
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