Ken Figueiredo
Software Engineer 2 at Skywalker Sound
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Figueiredo is a Software Engineer II with a decade of hands-on experience building production software across entertainment, travel, and media at companies like Skywalker Sound, The Walt Disney Company, and Expedia Group. A UCF-trained computer engineer based in New York, he moves fluidly between mobile, web, backend services, CI/CD and IoT—having shipped Android apps, node modules, device onboarding pipelines, and tooling to streamline team workflows. He has a track record of integrating machine learning, image/text recognition, and automation into product workflows, and has built internal APIs, CLIs, and npm modules to accelerate development. Comfortable in both large enterprise environments and smaller consultative roles, he consistently focuses on pragmatic solutions that improve developer velocity. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product needs with reliable implementation and to push small, high-impact infrastructure improvements that often go unnoticed.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (67)
apiary10
ranger10
hive-metastore9
terraform-module8
authentication8
terraform8
metastore8
data-lake8
hive8
lambda7
java7
replication7
ingress7
aws7
hive-table6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
KenFigueiredo/beekeeper
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
Service for automatically managing and cleaning up unreferenced data
Contributions:4 PRs, 78 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
cleaning
disney/terraform-aws-lambda-at-edge-cognito-authentication
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Terraform module to create a Lambda@Edge for fronting a Cloudfront Distribution with authentication through Cognito user pools.
Contributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 9 commits in 3 months
authenticationlambdaterraform-module
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