Jeff Keen
Founder at Dubbletrack
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Keen is an experience-focused web developer and founder based in Austin with 15+ years building products and shipping user-centered software across Rails and Ember.js stacks. Since 2014 he’s run Tempo Labs consulting and in 2023 launched Dubbletrack to modernize community radio, blending his passion for audio with pragmatic engineering. He’s contributed backend improvements to notable open-source Rails tooling (e.g., Graphiti), modernizing relationship handling and tests while keeping APIs stylish and maintainable. Jeff’s background ranges from embedded control systems and electrical engineering to large-scale UX work at Spiceworks, giving him a rare combination of hardware sensibility and product-minded frontend/back-end fluency. Colleagues know him for practical creativity—he values human-centered outcomes, quirky details (he owns many rugs), and steady, recoverable engineering after real-world mishaps.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Minnesota State University, MankatoComputer Science, Computer Science at Columbia University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
rails10
ruby10
api10
rspec9
api-server9
ruby-on-rails9
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
json-api8
wpgraphql8
docker-for-mac6
usps6
macos6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
graphiti-api/graphiti
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
Stylish Graph APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 8 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the `graphiti-api/graphiti` repository by implementing and refining features related to relationship identifiers and sideloading within the API. They focused on including and excluding resource identifiers, modifying the behavior of `belongs_to` and `has_many` relationships. The commits also include adding tests to validate the implemented changes. The user also updated the code to use more modern Rails practices, like updating from `update_attributes` to `update`.
ruby-on-railsapigraphitirailsruby
jkeen/latlmes
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
La Tlmes
Contributions:67 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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