Ken Naku
AI-Native Enterprise Integration Architect | Co-Founder (Juggernaut Labs) | Generative AI & LLM Systems
11 yrs experience · Canada · <10 hrs/week
About
Co-Founder and enterprise integration architect bridging legacy enterprise systems with AI-native application platforms. Over a decade focused on complex system integration, secure and compliant high-volume data flows, and “last mile” connectivity—connecting ERPs/CRMs/financial systems to modern front-ends and AI workflows. Builds governance-first, Human-in-the-Loop architectures and developer-friendly orchestration layers so sovereign data can power verified actions back into operational stacks.
Skills
Experience
- Co-Founder · Juggernaut Labs01-01-2025
Leading the architectural vision for an enterprise-grade AI application platform. My focus is on translating complex integration requirements into a seamless, "Pro-Code" user experience. - System Architecture: Designed the platform's proprietary 3-layer stack (Orchestration, Data, Visual), enabling clients to build complex, state-aware applications that integrate directly with their existing MongoDB infrastructure. - Integration Engine: Engineered the "Headless Orchestration" layer, allowing businesses to expose sophisticated multi-step AI workflows as simple, stable APIs for their internal tools. - Governance & Security: Implemented rigorous "Human-in-the-Loop" protocols and audit trails, ensuring that automated decisions meet the compliance standards of highly regulated industries (Finance, Healthcare, Education).
- Founder · Decibel03-01-2022
● Founded a startup called Decibel that enables owners of music to sell the commercial rights to remix and sample their music in a tokenized form. ● Built an advanced royalty payment distribution framework that allows for efficient fractionalized payments for up to 1000 entities, using the Polygon blockchain. ● Built a permission based file sharing and collaboration system that supports custom roles, permissions, and teams ● Built an advanced web-based audio sampling, editing, and remixing tools that simplify advanced audio editing tasks. ● Pioneered advanced audio editing tool called Declarative Editing, that use leveraged LLMs to make precision editing simplified for musical creators ● A progressive web platform built with React, Node.js, and Golang
- Full-Stack Engineer/Architect · Independent Consulting01-01-2018
Worked as an independent consultant for multiple projects, leading efforts in software development, process optimization, and system architecture. ● Led solution design and development of a consolidated medical chart system for Physicians and Medical professionals to view patient data within a streamlined simplified user interface. ● Led emergency development efforts to restore a complex Lightning application core functionality and improved the overall performance and efficiency of the application. The application was being used by the largest University Accreditation Agency on the East Coast to screen and review applications submitted by Universities and College institutions. ● Led solution development for a custom application to help process real estate agreements with dynamic logic that was used by a Fortune 500 real estate corporation.
- Senior Software Engineer · DocuSign11-01-2020 – 02-01-2022
Worked in a collaborative and agile environment to create new product features, fix bugs and enhance existing features to improve the overall user experience of the commercial product DocuSign for Salesforce Managed Package. Touched all fronts of the SFDC Based Product: Apex Classes, Visualforce Pages, Apex Triggers, External Visualization Libraries, Lightning Components, sObjects/ custom fields, SFDC process-builder invocable actions and various other components of the Managed Package. Had sole ownership of three major features designs and the full life cycle Implementation (From a conceptual P.O.C. to a ready to ship feature). Envelope Configurations, Automated Envelope Sending (Invocable Actions), and DocuSign Status for Gmail. Articulated the core values of DocuSign for Salesforce to key stakeholders such as C-level executives (CEO, CTO, Product Managers, etc.), and external stakeholders via Salesforce conference presentations (Trailhead DX and Dreamforce).
- Software Engineer · DocuSign08-01-2016 – 11-01-2020
Worked in a collaborative and agile environment to create new product features, fix bugs and enhance existing features to improve the overall user experience of the commercial product DocuSign for Salesforce Managed Package. Touched all fronts of the SFDC Based Product: Apex Classes, Visualforce Pages, Apex Triggers, External Visualization Libraries, Lightning Components, sObjects/ custom fields, SFDC process-builder invocable actions and various other components of the Managed Package. Had sole ownership of three major features designs and the full life cycle Implementation (From a conceptual P.O.C. to a ready to ship feature). Envelope Configurations, Automated Envelope Sending (Invocable Actions), and DocuSign Status for Gmail. Articulated the core values of DocuSign for Salesforce to key stakeholders such as C-level executives (CEO, CTO, Product Managers, etc.), and external stakeholders via Salesforce conference presentations (Trailhead DX and Dreamforce).
- Applications Engineer · Kenandy, Inc. (Aquired by Rootstock)11-01-2015 – 08-01-2016
Product Overview: Built on the Salesforce platform, Kenandy has redefined enterprise resource planning by allowing customers to map to their existing business processes. Kenandy is dedicated to giving mid-sized manufacturers the freedom to innovate products, services, operations and relationships with cloud ERP that is flexible and ready for growth. Unlike traditional ERP systems, Kenandy provides an end-to-end cloud ERP 150 Business Ready Objects,™ not thousands of tables. Now you can, with Kenandy. Link: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000004gD2OEAU Keywords: ERP, Cloud ERP, Manufacturing Management, Order-to-Cash, Procurement, Global Financials, Trade Promotion Management, Planning and Production, Software, Enterprise Resource Planning, SAAS, Cloud Software Experience: - Worked in a collaborative and agile developing space to create new product features, fix bugs and enhance existing features to improve the overall user experience & functionality of the product. -Focused a majority of my engineering efforts toward the financial accounting portion of the cloud based ERP - Designed, programmed, and deployed highly scalable code used in the product suite - Touched all fronts of the SFDC Based Product: Apex Classes, Visualforce Pages, Apex Triggers, External Visualization Libraries, and various other components of the Managed Package.
- Marketing Engineer & Technical Analyst · Vendavo06-01-2015 – 11-01-2015
Reporting and Analytics -Generated and Maintained Reports and Dashboards in SFDC -Performed advanced SOQL Queries to gather key business insights & metrics for Business Leaders -Created and Maintained Marketo reports -Based on data and process audits, suggested improvements, and assisted in the implementation of new processes to improve the efficiency of the Marketing Team and related business units Programmatic Solutions -Created, Tested, Deployed, and Maintained Apex Triggers, Workflow Automation Triggers and Apex Batch Classes to pragmatically improve data quality, mass update records, and automate key business processes in SFDC -Created, Tested, Deployed, and Maintained advanced custom solutions and visualforce pages (and their respective apex controllers) to enable high level analytics -Utilized Marketo Automation to create smart campaigns to alerts Sales Representatives and Sales Development Representatives of key sales leads and contacts activities SFDC Administration -Created custom fields and objects to track key business & marketing metrics -Used SFDC Data Loader to mass append, delete, and create records across multiple objects -Evaluated third party solutions and vendors to improve data quality and analytics in SFDC
- Data Integrity Analyst, Sales Operations · New Relic, Inc.01-01-2014 – 06-01-2015
- Facilitated and oversaw the Lead Distribution/ Lead Pre-qualifying process for Sales Representatives - Suggested improvements, and assisted in the implementation of new processes to improve the efficiency of the Sales Team and/or related business units. - Communicated with Sales Representatives to resolve issues regarding leads - Utilized Salesforce.com CRM to generate/ manage reports and dashboards - Created and Managed Workflows and validation rules to ensure high quality data within SFDC instance - Developed and maintained Salesforce Visualforce pages and components - Created and managed SQL based dashboards using New Relic's internal product Insights
- Internship · Sam & Associates11-01-2013 – 12-01-2013
Assisted a Tax accountant in the greater Sacramento, California region. Duties Performed • Assisted with data entry • Assisted with bank reconciliation and payroll • Assisted in the preparation of Income and Cash flow statements
- Clinic Manager · Quality Family Health Care01-01-2010 – 09-01-2011
Managed a small medical clinic and performed various management and administrative tasks; Helped ensure that the clinic operated in an overall efficient manner. Duties Performed: • Assisted in the day to day Coordinating, Tracking and Scheduling of Medical personnel • Assessed, evaluated, and implemented systems to improve the overall operations of the clinic • Conducted performance evaluations of medical personnel • Implemented and managed the electronic patient chart system • Performed various budget/expense management tasks • Managed patient billing system • Managed the inventory of medical supplies • Resolved customer service related issues with
Education
- University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (BA), Business Administration (Minor in Economics)
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