Keith Gaddis
Principal Software Engineer at Hiive
Pacifica, California, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Gaddis is a Principal Software Engineer with over 25 years in the industry and a 16-year track record of senior engineering leadership, currently based in Pacifica, California. He excels at transforming architectures and delivery pipelines—most recently driving an 87% reduction in deployment times through a Kubernetes migration and rebuilding CICD to cut build times by over 80%. A pragmatic mentor, Keith has led multiple company-wide language shifts from Ruby to Elixir, improving fault tolerance and team productivity while shepherding early-career engineers. He pairs infrastructure, security, and compliance expertise (including HITRUST work) with product-focused initiatives like business intelligence that accelerated feature delivery. His background spans startups and enterprise products—CTO roles, event-sourced experiments, and high-concurrency Elixir systems that slashed server counts by 95%—showing a knack for solving both scalability and operational cost problems. Known for hands-on coaching and cross-functional influence, he turns complex technical strategy into measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of Southern MississippiThe University of Alabama in HuntsvilleAustin Community College
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Github Skills (179)
vim10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
karmajunkie/replay
Dec 2011 - May 2017
Contributions:48 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 6 months
event-sourcedreplay
karmajunkie/replay-rails
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 9 months
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