Ken Tominaga

Senior Software Engineer, Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology at The Walt Disney Company

Palo Alto, California, United States
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Ken Tominaga is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN from Palo Alto while also founding AIMA. He has a strong mobile engineering pedigree—contributing to the flagship facebook/react-native project by modernizing iOS codepaths and removing legacy version checks to keep the framework current. Ken progressed through technical and leadership roles at Mercari, shipping production mobile features and leading teams, and earlier applied deep learning to automated cancer detection during research at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He blends academic rigor from The University of Tokyo with hands-on product delivery, mentoring youth in iOS development and translating research-grade ML work into practical systems. Known for pragmatic refactors and dependency modernization, he focuses on long-term maintainability as much as new features.
code12 years of coding experience
job7 years of employment as a software developer
bookThe Kaisei Academy
bookUniversity of Tokyo
languagesEnglish, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (7)

ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
objective-c9
app-framework9
cross-platform8
swift7

Programming languages (11)

TypeScriptJavaC++ShellCJavaScriptGoObjective-C

Github contributions (5)

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facebook/react-native

Sep 2021 - Oct 2022

A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
userMobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:19 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ken primarily contributed to removing iOS-specific version checks and deprecation warnings within the React Native framework. Their work involved modifying core components and views to align with the minimum supported iOS version, focusing on removing legacy code related to iOS 11 and 12. They addressed outdated code, updated dependencies, and refactored existing code to align with the current React Native iOS development standards. The user's contributions streamlined the codebase and ensured compatibility.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
ken0nek/XcodeGen

Nov 2019 - Nov 2024

A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years
command-line-toolswiftlintswiftiosxcode-extension
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Ken Tominaga - Senior Software Engineer, Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology at The Walt Disney Company