Ken Tanaka
Senior Software Engineer at Alpha Omega
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKen Tanaka is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building enterprise data storage and retrieval systems for environmental science, currently leading engineering efforts at Alpha Omega Integration. He combines deep expertise in Python, AWS, relational and geospatial databases, and tape-archive/data-ingest workflows with certified Agile ScrumMaster practice to deliver reliable, cloud-deployed archival systems. At the University of Colorado he led NCCF Archive Workflow deployments, ran load and performance testing, and modernized serverless Lambdas and state machines while managing cloud costs. A proven team lead and hiring lead, Ken pairs hands-on technical execution with thoughtful people decisions and a knack for translating scientific metadata standards into production-grade systems. Notably, his background spans real-time simulation integration to high-volume printing systems, reflecting a rare blend of legacy systems experience and modern cloud-native operations.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Applications in Astrophysical sciences, BA, Computer Applications in Astrophysical sciences at University of Colorado at Boulder
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Github Skills (42)
environmental10
noaa10
angularjs10
docker9
discovery9
angular8
documentation8
data-management8
r-tree8
javascript8
kubernetes8
search-engine7
csb7
python7
macos6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kenhtanaka/rwin
Feb 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
cedardevs/csbCrawler2Cloud
May 2020 - Sep 2021
A utility to upload CSB data to the cloud, and handle some pre-processing tasks like geographic masks
Contributions:10 PRs, 36 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
pre-processingpythonmaskscsbhandle
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