Keenan Tims
Senior Network Engineer at Demonware
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKeenan Tims is a Senior Network Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient provider and enterprise networks from Vancouver, BC. He has led IPv6 deployments, multi-IXP BGP peering turnups, routing policy design across diverse transit and peering fabrics, and coordinated expansion to new POPs while managing small engineering teams. Equally comfortable in systems work, he has deployed redundant anycast DNS, implemented Puppet-based configuration management, and improved monitoring and automation tooling. An active back-end and database contributor to PowerAdmin, he has optimized critical DNS control-panel queries and integrated DNSSEC-related functionality—showing a blend of deep routing expertise and pragmatic application-level fixes. Known for tackling both high-level architecture and low-level operational details, he delivers practical, production-ready network and systems solutions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Langara College
English
Github Skills (10)
powerdns10
php10
dns10
admin10
sql10
database-optimization10
database-design9
mariadb8
mysql8
postgresql7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
poweradmin/poweradmin
Sep 2014 - Nov 2015
A web-based control panel for PowerDNS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Keenan primarily contributed to improving the back-end functionality and database interactions of the PowerAdmin project. Their work involved optimizing database queries for performance, specifically targeting the removal of unnecessary queries related to ordering records and improving the main zone listing query to enhance performance. They also implemented critical fixes to ensure proper referential integrity during domain and record deletion and refactored code related to adding records, including the integration of DNSSEC-related functionality.
web-basedphppanelpowerdnsphp8
ktims/rs-aggregate
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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