James Keast
Senior Technical Lead, Endpoint Production Engineering, CI CD at Arctic Wolf
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Keast is a Senior Technical Lead specializing in endpoint production engineering and CI/CD with eight years of professional experience and advanced academic training in computing from Dalhousie and Waterloo. Based in Halifax, he has led distributed engineering teams through full software lifecycles—design, architecture, builds, branching and release management—while defining code line and release strategies that improve delivery and reduce risk. Known for deep, rapid comprehension of complex systems, he elevates quality through code review, static analysis, continuous integration and measurable metrics. A hands-on people manager and mentor, he conducts hiring and performance reviews and fosters cross-team collaboration to scale reliable production services. Despite a lean public GitHub presence, his track record at enterprise-grade operations shows a pragmatic focus on reproducible pipelines and maintainable deployment practices.
8 years of coding experience
Bsc, Computing Science, Bsc, Computing Science at Dalhousie UniversityMMath, Computer Science, MMath, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (38)
ldap10
index-html10
websocket10
ftp10
ftps10
sdk10
receiver10
curl10
sftp10
scp10
user-agent9
imap9
ssl9
rtsp9
smtp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blackberry/bb-spark-linux-samples
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Example applications built with the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK for Linux. For Android, iOS, and JavaScript examples see: https://github.com/blackberry/bb-spark-android-samples, https://github.com/blackberry/bb-spark-ios-samples, and https://github.com/blackberry/bb-spark-javascript-samples.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
examples-javascriptandroid-samplesios-androidcommunicationsjavascript
blackberry/bb-spark-javascript-samples
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
Example applications built with the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK for JavaScript. For Android, iOS, and Linux examples see: https://github.com/blackberry/bb-spark-android-samples, https://github.com/blackberry/bb-spark-ios-samples, and https://github.com/blackberry/bb-spark-linux-samples.
Contributions:23 commits, 29 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
android-samplesjavascriptcommunicationsios-androidandroid
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