Keith Elder
Senior Team Leader, Engineering at Rocket
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Elder is a seasoned VP-level technology leader and Senior Team Leader of Engineering at Rocket Mortgage with 20+ years driving enterprise digital transformation, platform modernization, and product delivery at scale. He builds and mentors high-performing teams that connect business strategy to engineering execution, with deep expertise in cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, API-first architectures, CI/CD, DevOps, and AI-enabled solutions. Known for leading through complexity, he has improved delivery velocity, reliability, and time-to-market for products that generate millions in annual impact while maintaining stability, security, and trust. Keith’s background includes hands-on contributions to open-source work—refactoring .NET RabbitMQ tutorials—reflecting continued craftsmanship alongside strategic leadership. Earlier career roles from CTO of a startup to faculty-level Linux instructor and a band director underscore his blend of technical depth, teaching ability, and people-first leadership. Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he excels at turning complex fintech challenges in Capital Markets into durable systems and empowered teams.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BMA Music (Minor Computer Science), BMA Music (Minor Computer Science) at The University of Southern Mississippi
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Github Skills (15)
rabbitmq10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
rpc10
csharp10
message-queue10
dotnet-core10
orm9
vbnet6
managed-code6
clickonce6
linux6
silverlight6
windows-installer6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/rabbitmq-tutorials
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Tutorials for using RabbitMQ in various ways
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed by refactoring and cleaning up existing code in the repository. Their work focused on several .NET-based examples for RabbitMQ tutorials, including server and client-side RPC implementations, and message publishing and consuming scenarios. This included updating code examples related to queues, exchanges, and bindings within the context of the RabbitMQ messaging system.
rabbitmqrabbitmq-clientamqp
keithelder/StartR
Nov 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
web-applicationcqrsasp-netnet-mvcsignalr
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