Alan Keister
Founding Head Of Engineering at Optimus Labs
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Keister is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years in senior technology roles and a 30+ year career building scalable, secure systems across startups and enterprises. Currently Head of Engineering at Hedy Cyber, he has led cloud-native rearchitectures, large multi-team transformations, and security-first engineering programs at companies including Capital One, Fundrise, and Sophos. He excels at translating product and compliance needs into resilient backend platforms (notably Java on AWS) and has a strong track record founding and scaling engineering organizations through acquisition at Invincea. Based in Washington, DC, he combines deep operational experience with hands-on technical judgment—having led everything from real-time messaging infrastructure at AOL to ML-driven endpoint security—and is known for fostering security champions and integrating threat modeling into development.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Ohio University
Github Skills (34)
java7
usenet7
nvidia7
aws7
python7
streaming7
logging7
moonlight6
windows-app6
command-line-interface6
qt6
postgresql6
remote-control6
mysql6
steam5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlanKK/pynab
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 9 days
pythoncompliantusenetnewznabpostgresql
AlanKK/everythingx
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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