Geoff Townsend
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoff Townsend is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams across security, networking, and API management. He has led engineering orgs at Blameless and Kong—where he helped launch Kong Enterprise and the Kong Konnect SaaS platform—and previously drove R&D at OpenDNS through its acquisition by Cisco. Geoff focuses on enabling teams to deliver reliable, service-oriented and microservices architectures, combining hands-on technical background in C/C++ systems with strategic product leadership. Based in Pleasanton, CA, he brings a pragmatic people-first approach to reliability and operations, and a track record of turning complex distributed systems into shipped, productionized products.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (31)
api-client9
mocking9
nginx8
kong8
api-testing8
api8
mock-server8
testing7
artificial-intelligence7
kong-plugin7
gateway7
api-gateway7
docker7
serverless7
microservices6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
opendns/dnscrypt-win-client
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
windowsdnsproxydnscryptdnscrypt-proxy
Kong/insomnia-mockbin
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Insomnia Mockbin is the underlying backend for the API mocks capability of Insomnia. It is built and used by Kong, the author of the open-source Kong Gateway.
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
api-clientapi-testhttp-requestsmock-serverkong-plugin
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