Keith Fafel
VP Of Product at WP Engine
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Fafel is a senior product executive with over two decades of experience transforming teams and delivering profitable enterprise and consumer technology products. Currently VP of Product at WP Engine and formerly VP of Platform & Engineering at Equinix, he combines hands-on product delivery with strategy, M&A experience, and repeatable operational practices that scale globally. He has a track record of launching MVPs into multimillion-dollar ARR offerings, driving cloud cost efficiencies through FinOps, and restoring dysfunctional organizations into high-performing cross-functional teams. A pragmatic leader who spans product management, UX, engineering and GTM, he emphasizes customer experience and measurable KPIs tied to SLOs/SLAs. Early-career engineering roots and open-source contributions to the Fog Ruby cloud library reflect his comfort with both low-level systems details and executive strategy. Based in Austin, he is known for clarifying vision, up-leveling talent, and converting complex platform initiatives into predictable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellAssociates in Science Electronic Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associates in Science Electronic Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middlesex Community College
English
Github Skills (7)
rackspace10
monitoring10
api10
fog10
apidoc10
ruby10
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
fog/fog
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributed to implementing Rackspace Monitoring Agent Host information within the Fog Ruby cloud services library. Their work involved adding methods to retrieve and present data for network interfaces, processes, CPUs, disks, memory, system, and logged-in users. These changes included writing code to retrieve information about various system components.
cloud-servicesruby
kfafel/github-slideshow
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
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