Annie Ke is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently working at Turnkey in the San Francisco Bay Area. She played central backend and DevOps roles on Optimism—the high-profile Ethereum scaling project—improving batch submitters, observability, and deployment pipelines. Prior roles at OP Labs and Coinbase reflect deep expertise in crypto infrastructure, protocol partnerships, and developer experience. Annie combines production-grade engineering with product sensibility, having moved between backend implementation and developer-facing roles. Motivated by climate and equitable resource access, she focuses on tooling that scales impact as well as systems. Her background in computer science and mathematics from Dartmouth underpins a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science & Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science & Mathematics at Dartmouth College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Piedmont Hills High School
Contributions:228 reviews, 85 commits, 84 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Annie primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the Optimism project, focusing on the batch submitter and data transport layer. They debugged and improved core logic, such as the L1 block number retrieval. Their work included adding logging, integrating Sentry for error tracking, and implementing metrics for monitoring. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build and deployment configurations.
Contributions:59 commits, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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