Keith Blaha is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer platforms. He has driven infrastructure and ranking work at high-traffic consumer companies like Reddit and Instagram (Facebook) and now leads engineering efforts at Freenome, where he advanced from Staff to Senior Staff. An intentional generalist and lifelong learner, Keith blends applied math/economics training from Swarthmore and LSE with hands-on systems design, developer experience, and product-focused backend architecture. He has startup chops as a co-founder and lead engineer, having built finance workflow backends and bootstrapped recruiting tech, giving him a pragmatic product sensibility alongside platform expertise. Colleagues rely on him to tackle complex cross-team problems and improve developer productivity while keeping an eye on measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, Economics, B.A., Mathematics, Economics at Swarthmore College
General Course, Mathematics, Economics, General Course, Mathematics, Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science
Contributions:91 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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Keith Blaha - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Freenome