Chris Keathley
Principal Engineer at Panthalassa
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChris Keathley is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, high-scale network services and data pipelines, currently working on ultra-low-cost energy systems at a startup. He specializes in Elixir and Erlang, with deep hands-on expertise in Kafka pipelines and performance-focused HTTP clients. Chris has contributed notable improvements to popular Elixir projects—adding concurrent browser test capabilities to Wallaby and connection pooling, telemetry, and error handling to Finch. His career spans startups and larger teams (Frame.io, Bleacher Report, Le Tote) where he blends backend architecture with test automation and operational monitoring. Based in Chattanooga, TN, he pairs an electrical engineering background with pragmatic software engineering to optimize reliability and cost. Open to new work, he combines system-level thinking with low-level protocol and performance tuning.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at John Brown University
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Github Skills (18)
webdriver10
elixir10
testing10
test-framework10
http-client10
telemetry10
httpoison9
http9
ecto8
api-testing8
erlang8
phoenix-framework8
phoenix-liveview8
apache-phoenix8
data-manipulation6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-wallaby/wallaby
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Concurrent browser tests for your Elixir web apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end & Test Automation EngineerContributions:24 releases, 255 commits, 248 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Elixir-based testing framework by implementing initial tests for API design using webdrivers. They added HTTPoison library to perform HTTP requests in tests. Furthermore, they added new testing capabilities, introducing functionality for form field and radio button interaction, including the ability to set and clear form fields.
concurrentbrowserbrowser-teststestingelixir
sneako/finch
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Elixir HTTP client, focused on performance
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 84 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Elixir HTTP client, focusing on core functionality and performance. They implemented the initial structure and logic for connection pooling using `NimblePool`. The user also handled connection errors and incorporated telemetry for monitoring request and response times, including connection and queue management. These contributions focused on improving the client's stability and efficiency.
http-clientpoolelixirelixir-httpfocused
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