Keith Branton is a Chief Software Architect with over 12 years of experience designing and operationalizing large-scale, cloud-native systems from Lehi, Utah. He excels at turning monoliths into resilient microservices, having migrated NodeJS systems to Java, adopted Debezium for reliable data syncing, and moved platforms to GCP/GKE while instituting observability, billing, and security patterns. Known for pragmatic performance work, he has repeatedly rescued production pain points—tuning critical queries and re-architecting inbox search to drop p99 latencies from ~12s to under 0.5s. He blends hands-on engineering (databases, streaming, Kubernetes) with developer experience leadership, enabling teams to own infrastructure and ship faster. Outside typical architecture work he’s even built large-scale media streaming solutions (converting 276 channels to HLS and load-testing to 4,000 endpoints), showing a knack for practical, cross-domain systems engineering.
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Keith Branton - Chief Software Architect at Kenect