About me

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Professional summary

Howdy! 👋 I am a highly motivated and passionate engineer with over eight years of professional experience developing great user experiences across the complete development life cycle of a product. I can handles complex project management and I use my effective communication skills to align and coordinate engineers to efficiently deliver results. I am always seeking opportunities to contribute my energy and experience to a high-performing team of similarly passionate engineers building amazing tools and products.

Recommendations from colleagues

Hire Keith! I learned a ton from him when we worked together, and he will make your team and product better! ✨

— Stephanie Eckles

Keith is on my short list of favorite coworkers from the past decade. I cannot overemphasize the value he brings in candor, thoughtfulness, sense of humor, depth and breadth of intellect. The passion he brings for technology in both his professional and personal life is infectious, and inspires everyone he works with. He was central to the creation of a culture of excellence that spanned across dozens of developers during our time together at Nelnet. I would like to be like Keith when I grow up!

— Clay Siefken

We like to focus on technical tools as engineers at the expense of what else makes a pleasant engineering organization. Keith continually worked towards technical process, documentation, and general organizational culture/vibe growth helping build a more positive/productive org at Nelnet. That willingness to bring up difficult topics, with a passion for writing thoughtful software, is beneficial for any team.

— Ben Watkins

Work history

b.well Connected Health 2024-2025

Senior Software Engineer

Full stack development with React/Typescript front end and Node/Typescript back end with GraphQL and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
Designed and implemented a Node/Typescript service for managing customer defined FHIR records.
Investigated, identified, and implemented performance improvements.
Worked with a team to identify and implement developer experience improvements to improve developer productivity.
Coordinated with architects to update and merge our team’s GraphQL services into a federated graph.
Feature development and maintenance of a TypeScript SDK.
Mentored team members.

Nelnet 2021-2024

Platform Software Developer

Platform development with Node/Typescript and Kubernetes.
Migrated local microservices development environment tooling from Docker Compose to Kubernetes with Helm and Helmfile.
Developed internal developer documentation portal to collect docs-as-code from organization repositories and render them as a single navigable and searchable web site.
Implemented repository templating tool for repository creation and updates using Angular Schematics to enable targeted updates while minimizing repository customization disruptions.
Provided one of three onboarding sessions for all new developers in our business segment.
Trained developers in use of Kubernetes and Helm for local microservices development.
Developed software in agile environments with an emphasis on finding processes and tools to support the given team rather than adhering to specific methodologies religiously.

Ally Bank 2021

Software Developer

Core API development for all Ally products with Node/Typescript, AWS Lambda, and Terraform.
Implemented a DynamoDB abstraction library to standardize database access and data serialization/deserialization with full type safety guarantees.

Nelnet 2018-2021

Full Stack Developer

Full stack development with React/Typescript front end and Node/Typescript back end.
Leveraged Typescript, object oriented programming, domain driven design, and functional programming to build services and libraries for a microservices platform.
Technical lead for a product deployment implementation squad.
Implemented CI/CD processes for testing, building, releasing, and deploying services and libraries with Bitbucket Pipelines and later GitHub Actions.
Helped build Nelnet’s first successful design system based on Material Design to help designers and developers collaborate on building beautiful and accessible user interfaces and experiences.
Implemened CLI tooling for managing private registry authentication, repository templating, and services deployment.
Developed software in agile environments with an emphasis on finding processes and tools to support the given team rather than adhering to specific methodologies religiously.
Prepared and facilitated eight instances of one month long developer "immersion" training sessions to cross train existing development staff on the new microservices platform and tech stack.

Nanonation, Inc. 2016-2018

Software Developer

Full stack development with React/Typescript front end and ASP .NET back end.
Partnered with a senior developer to reinvent our digital signage content management system used to manage over 40,000 client devices.
Empowered our customer’s ability to effectively reach target audiences by developing hardware and web API integrations for their digital signage solutions.

Union College 2012-2016

Information Systems Server Technician

Improved our server systems efficiency and maintainability by implementing a Hyper-V virtualization server cluster and migrating our existing server infrastructure to the cluster.
Provisioned and maintained over a dozen servers in a mixed Windows and Linux environment.
Improved personal efficiency by automating tasks with PowerShell, bash, and batch scripts.

Information Systems Desktop Technician

Was part of a team that provided support for over 700 users
Set up over 140 machines from box to user

Tech & Tabletop Club Officer

Organized monthly technology lectures for students
Designed and maintained the club website