Edison Figueroa
Director Of Technology at Target
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdison Figueroa is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Technology at Target, bringing 20 years of IT experience delivering software across medical devices, mortgage, insurance, commerce, engineering, and entertainment. He leads full software lifecycles—from business analysis and data modeling to architecture, deployment, UAT, and performance testing—empowering robust, scalable solutions. His architecture expertise centers on Java web applications built with the Spring framework, applying design patterns to craft maintainable systems. Earlier in his career he held senior leadership and hands-on engineering roles, including Director of Engineering, Senior Engineer Manager, and Lead Engineer at Target, with earlier technical leadership at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Wells Fargo, and other financial institutions. In 2024 he completed an Artificial Intelligence Programme at the University of Oxford, underscoring a proactive approach to integrating AI into enterprise software. Based in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, he blends strategic tech vision with hands-on engineering leadership to ship reliable software at scale.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electronic Systems Engineering, BS, Electronic Systems Engineering at Tecnológico de MonterreyArtificial Intelligence Programme, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Programme, Artificial Intelligence at University of Oxford
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
plugin6
gradle4
opentelemetry2
distributed-tracing1
observability1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
edisonfigueroa/schedule2drive-crawler
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
edisonfigueroa/opentelemetry-gradle-plugin
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Instrument your Gradle build with OpenTelemetry observability to find and eliminate bottlenecks in your build
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
gradlegradle-buildtracingobservabilitydistributed-tracing
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