Karl Keefer
Director Of Technology at HealthLearn
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Keefer is a Director of Technology and full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building user-centered web products and leading distributed engineering teams from Portland, Oregon. He currently drives tech strategy at HealthLearn to expand clinical training in developing countries, blending hands-on backend work (Go, Postgres, Docker) with front-end UX sensibilities. A founder-operator at heart—previously running his own consultancy and co-founding ventures—he pairs product intuition with pragmatic delivery and best practices across time zones. His open-source work includes dockerized full-stack projects that implement production builds, auth flows, and DB migration strategies, reflecting a focus on reliable deployment pipelines as much as features. Collected experience across startups and scale-ups gives him a rare mix of leadership, execution, and attention to end-user impact.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
645reputation
60kreached
14answers
3questions
Github Skills (30)
docker10
postgresql10
web-application10
back-end-development10
dockers10
go10
front-end-development10
webapp10
web-development10
backend10
react10
api-design9
restful-api9
authentication9
api-rest9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
karlkeefer/pngr
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
dockerized (postgres + nginx + golang + react)
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 222 commits, 30 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Karl primarily worked on the backend of the application, dockerizing the project using Go, React, PostgreSQL, and Nginx. They implemented login and account verification functionalities, including creating user signup and password reset flows. In addition, the user set up a production build process and static file serving for the frontend, including integrating with a react-based front-end application. Furthermore, the user integrated the project with a Postgres database and set up a database migration strategy with `pgmigrate`.
nginxgolangreactdockerdocker-compose
karlkeefer/czs
Oct 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
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