Ken Mazaika
Engineering Manager at Disney Streaming
United States
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Top SchoolKen Mazaika is an engineering manager and former founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling production software for startups and enterprises. He has led teams at Amazon and Disney Streaming, launching a warehouse inventory tool used by 23,000 associates that drove over $110M in annualized savings and is projected to save $120M in 2023. As co-founder and CTO of Firehose Project, he architected a modular ed-tech platform that scaled into Trilogy’s ecosystem and contributed to a successful acquisition and subsequent integration into enterprise university deployments. He combines hands-on architecture and CI/CD automation with people leadership—promoting engineers, building hiring/onboarding processes, and instituting monitoring and test strategies to improve operational excellence. Comfortable in both startup and large-company contexts, he repeatedly turns ambiguous product needs into scalable, measurable systems that deliver business impact.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Stackoverflow
1,142reputation
111kreached
13answers
7questions
v8
top-5%
Github Skills (46)
payment-gateway9
v89
payment-integration9
payment9
payment-processing9
adyen9
square8
shopify7
abstraction7
httparty7
spree7
paperclip6
xmlrpc6
ruby-on-rails6
github6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kenmazaika/file_upload_cache
Apr 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 2 years 1 month
validation-errorsrestorevalidationfile-uploads
FirehoseWeekend/install-guide
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:49 commits in 5 months
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