Ken Crawford
Lead Principal Architect at Total Wine & More
Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Crawford is a Lead Principal Architect with over a decade of experience modernizing enterprise systems—driving migrations from monoliths to microservices and on-prem to cloud while remaining hands-on across DevOps and architecture. He leads Total Wine & More’s cloud transformation, championing Kubernetes, Istio, GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native databases like CockroachDB to replatform legacy apps. Proficient in Go, Java, and React, he contributes to open-source tooling such as enhancing gosec’s SonarQube output and hardening the OpenComponents registry, showing a practical focus on security, observability, and resilient backend services. Known for marrying architectural strategy with code-level fixes, he balances leadership with deep technical involvement across teams. Based in Boynton Beach, FL, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to scalable eCommerce and retail systems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Oviedo High SchoolBA MIS, BA MIS at Florida State University - College of Business
Github Skills (20)
json10
static-code-analysis10
javascript10
expressjs10
security-txt10
security10
go10
nodejs10
security-scan10
format-string9
formatter9
formatting9
text-format9
serverless9
component-kit8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
opencomponents/oc
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
OpenComponents, serverless in the front-end world for painless micro-frontends delivery
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ken primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `opencomponents/oc` registry service. Their contributions involved exposing the express app to the registry, setting and refining HTTP headers for component retrieval, and adding error handling and logging. They implemented improvements related to error management and added logging, which indicates a focus on improving the stability and monitoring capabilities of the service. These changes suggest a deep understanding of back-end processes.
ui-compositionreactfrontendsmicro-frontendsmicrofrontends
securego/gosec
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Go security checker
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to enhancing the Sonarqube output format for the gosec tool. They implemented a new Sonarqube output format, added necessary data structures and methods for reporting security issues, and made adjustments to existing reporting functionalities. Furthermore, they addressed errors, extracted code to constants, and fixed a comment within the project. These changes suggest a focus on improving the reporting and integration capabilities of the security tool.
golangchecklistsecurity-automationsecurity-toolschecker
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