Ken Pierson
Music
Orchestral scores for film, concert works, and an essay on film scoring style. Winner of the 2013 CINE Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Contest.
Films, recordings and writing →Engineering
Serverless web applications on AWS, including the audience-research platforms I build at Screen Engine/ASI: React and TypeScript, Node.js on Lambda, and infrastructure defined in code with Pulumi.
Work, projects and stack →About
I’m a composer and software engineer. My music is orchestral and written for live players, drawing on the classic film scoring of composers like John Williams and Bernard Herrmann. My engineering work is mostly lean, serverless web applications on AWS.
I live in Los Angeles. Since 2019 I’ve been Lead Software Architect at Screen Engine/ASI, a consumer-research firm for entertainment, media and gaming; I design and build the software it uses to recruit test audiences, run screenings online and deliver results to clients. I studied at James Madison University.