Joe Kemp
VP Of Engineering at Close
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Kemp is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years scaling backend teams and cloud infrastructure, now serving as VP of Engineering at Close after progressing from Senior Manager to Director. He blends deep DevOps and backend expertise—having migrated production workloads to Kubernetes, implemented Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and managed complex AWS services—with hands-on contributions to open-source tooling like the tasktiger Python Redis task queue. Joe’s career spans startups and regulated environments where he led SOX compliance, enterprise architecture, and mission-critical ops, reflecting strong operational rigor and security-minded engineering. Comfortable shifting between strategy and code, he’s known for optimizing reliability (reducing race conditions and improving worker shutdowns) and for bringing pragmatic automation to large distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Information Management, MS Computer Information Management at University of Maryland Global CampusBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland
Github Skills (8)
service-worker10
webworker10
queuing10
redis10
python10
queue10
concurrency9
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
closeio/tasktiger
Dec 2016 - Feb 2021
Python task queue using Redis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 18 reviews, 64 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the `tasktiger` Python task queue by improving its internal workings and overall robustness. They addressed race conditions, improved Redis usage through optimizations like a single worker queue, and enhanced worker shutdown procedures. Furthermore, the user refactored code to improve message handling and made several testing improvements to ensure the system's reliability.
pythonredispython-taskredis-streamstask-queue
jkemp101/testit
Jun 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 4 months
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