Brian Keese
Senior Software Engineer at Indiana University Bloomington
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Keese is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of professional experience building full-stack web applications in both higher education and private industry. Based in New Orleans, he leads development at Indiana University Bloomington and has long been a core contributor to the open-source Avalon Media System for managing large audio/video collections. A certified Scrum Master, he blends pragmatic agile leadership with deep hands-on skills across Ruby/Rails, PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript/React, and SQL, and champions test-driven development and CI/CD across traditional, cloud, and containerized deployments. His MS in Computer Science underpins a methodical approach to scalable, maintainable systems, while his anthropology bachelor’s gives him a user-centered perspective on digital archives and metadata. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex archival requirements into reliable, production-ready software that supports teaching, learning, and research.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBS, Anthropology, BS, Anthropology at Tulane University
Github Skills (71)
pandora10
angular-ui10
wave10
rest-api10
dspace10
solr10
transcoding10
open-access10
rails10
java10
blacklight10
csharp10
ngrx10
open-source10
media-library10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bkeese/DSpace
Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Contributions:1 PR, 57 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
avalonmediasystem/mediaelement-track-scrubber
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
[DEPRECATED] - This repository is no longer maintained by Avalon media system. All the relevant MediaElement plugins are written as inline plugins within the Avalon code. A track scrubber plugin for media element
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
avaloniaavaloniauiscrubberavalonmediaelement
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