Christopher Keele
Senior Staff Engineer at Oyster Data
Mobile, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Keele is a Senior Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building web and backend systems from startup to scale, currently based in Mobile, Alabama. He has progressed through engineering and management roles at companies like Knock and Waypoint and now leads technical effort at Oyster Data. A pragmatic tinkerer and skilled technical writer, he contributes to prominent open-source projects such as the Elixir language—improving documentation, tests, and parsing examples to align implementation with docs. Christopher blends hands-on coding with team leadership, shipping reliable systems while clarifying engineering intent through documentation. He brings a background in computer science (LSU) and a knack for distilling complex behaviors into precise examples, making him as comfortable refactoring tests as designing architecture.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Comp Sci French, Computer Science Comp Sci French at Louisiana State UniversityLouisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
elixir10
documentation10
testing9
iso9
mixins7
exunit7
mixture7
mixnet7
mixing7
syntax6
ruby-on-rails6
literals6
specification6
rolify6
scopes6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/elixir
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:36 reviews, 9 commits, 23 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the Elixir language repository by improving documentation and clarifying code examples. Their work involved modifying the documentation within the `Calendar.ISO` module, enhancing clarity and accuracy. Furthermore, the user reworked the tests and examples of the parsing functions, ensuring they aligned with the documented behavior and fixed minor typos in the documentation for other modules. The user also made changes to the documentation for `Mix` and `ExUnit.DocTest`.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
christhekeele/otp
Apr 2018 - Feb 2024
Erlang/OTP
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 11 months
gleamerlangerlang-otpelixirotp
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