Amos Latteier
Technical Engineering Manager at Khan Academy
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAmos Latteier is a seasoned technical engineering manager with 27 years of experience, currently leading Platform and Frontend Infrastructure and advancing AI infrastructure at Khan Academy from Vancouver. He blends hands-on engineering—comfortable reviewing code and contributing technically—with team-first leadership focused on mentorship, autonomy, career development, and cross-functional coordination. A longtime SRE and infrastructure lead, he’s driven reliability, performance, and cost optimization at scale and serves as Khan Academy’s primary contact for GCP and OpenAI. His open-source contributions to the Pyramid Python web framework underscore a deep backend systems background and attention to robust routing, events, and documentation. Unusually for an engineering manager, he also brings a creative background in interactive public art and a BA with honors in Visual and Performing Arts, which informs a user-focused, design-minded approach to infrastructure.
27 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, with honors, Visual and Performing Arts, Bachelor's degree, with honors, Visual and Performing Arts at Brown University
Github Skills (6)
pyramid10
web-framework10
python10
documentation9
wsgi9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Pylons/pyramid
Jan 2013 - Jun 2016
Pyramid - A Python web framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Amos primarily contributed to the Pyramid web framework's core functionality by addressing predicate mismatches in view routing and implementing new features like custom events. They also added comprehensive documentation related to custom events and made minor fixes across the documentation and codebase. Their work included refactoring aspects of view derivation and adding new exception handling capabilities.
pythonpyramidpython-webframeworkpylons
Khan/beep-boop
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
Automated issue-frequency HipChat notifier
Contributions:1 review, 10 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
pythonhipchat-notifierhipchatmod-managerartemis
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