Summary
David Keith is an Information Technology Consultant and seasoned software engineer with three decades of industry experience and a decade of focused professional roles spanning startups and big tech. He blends hands-on engineering, documentation expertise, and product leadership—from pioneering developer education at Apple and co-designing the Works with Nest model at Google to scaling teams and roadmaps at Tara.ai. Recently he practices "agentic engineering," using LLM-driven specification-first workflows to build cost-conscious civic tools like a GIS bike-lane tracker and a Cloudflare-hosted events calendar for nonprofits. David is an active independent developer and open-source contributor who applies AI assistants to both code generation and operational tooling, shrinking SaaS footprints for small organizations. He holds a Computer Science background from Cornell College and a long record of translating complex systems into usable docs, tools, and measurable reductions in support overhead. Not immediately obvious: he pairs deep UX and documentation instincts with day-to-day AI-driven development practices that shift work from code-first to spec-and-evaluate, improving speed and quality.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Technical Theatre, Computer Science and Technical Theatre at Cornell College
St. Johnsbury Academy
Thinking & Writing, Thinking & Writing at Community College of Vermont
GED, High School Equivalence Certificate Program, GED, High School Equivalence Certificate Program at Unschooled