David Keen
Senior Software Engineer at Mimecast
Adelaide, South Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Keen is a senior software engineer and team lead with 16 years’ experience designing, building and operating large-scale systems, currently driving engineering work at Mimecast from Adelaide. He has deep hands-on experience across startups and product organisations, leading greenfield and legacy projects and moving teams to Agile practices, CI and automated deployments. His background spans Java, distributed data stores (Cassandra, MongoDB), messaging (ActiveMQ, Apache Camel) and high-throughput metering and ad-serving platforms. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and people leadership, he has repeatedly delivered resilient, high-performance services in production. Unusually for an engineer, he also holds a Distinction MSc in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Music, reflecting a mix of technical rigor and creative discipline.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BMus, Music Performance, Conducting, BMus, Music Performance, Conducting at Flinders Street School of Music, Adelaide Institute of TAFEMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction at Birkbeck, University of London
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Github Skills (29)
integrate10
java10
microservices10
apache9
ruby9
eip9
apache-camel9
linux9
homebrew9
package-manager8
macos8
x128
representations8
icalendar8
database-migration6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenAMEE/datasets
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 4 pushes in 2 months
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davidkeen/gpxpress
Sep 2012 - Jun 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
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