Keith Ballinger
Product, Technology & AI Advisor at Independent
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Ballinger is a seasoned software leader with 15+ years building developer platforms and shipping product-led engineering at scale, currently VP & GM of AppEco at Google Cloud. He has led engineering and product teams through major transitions at GitHub, Microsoft (including Azure DevOps and App Center), Xamarin, and multiple startups, blending hands-on architecture with executive-level operational rigor. Keith’s background spans founding startups, fintech API platforms, and core Microsoft web services, giving him a rare perspective across developer ecosystems, product, and infrastructure. He’s known for scaling teams and processes (1ES-like initiatives) that improve developer productivity across large organizations. Based in Seattle, he combines startup founder grit with enterprise delivery experience and a track record of shipping widely used developer tools and services. An engineer at heart, he still prioritizes shipping software and building teams that move fast while maintaining platform reliability.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
ai9
cli9
python8
xamarin-forms8
google-cloud8
xamarin8
gemini8
ai-agent8
gcp7
android7
google-cloud-run7
appcenter6
asp-net6
jackson6
post-redirect-get6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
keithballinger/FocusApp
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
Toy React Native App to track my day's main focus
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 7 months
reactreact-nativenative-apptoycode-push
keithballinger/ToDoList
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021
XCode + Calabash Example
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 2 months
macoscalabashxcode
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