Keith Garner
Bartlett, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Garner is an experienced engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on and managerial experience building scalable web applications and guiding distributed teams across the US, LATAM, and Europe. He has a strong technical pedigree in Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/React, and backend systems, and contributed to the widely used open-source Canvas LMS by improving gradebook, grading, and enrollment logic. Known for turning around underperforming teams and leaders, he has repeatedly combined deep technical problem solving—database query optimization, performance tuning, and security remediation—with people development and recruiting. Keith has led large engineering organizations (up to 60+ engineers), redesigned hiring and assessment processes, and driven cross-functional initiatives that preserved key customer relationships and accelerated revenue-focused work. Based in Bartlett, Illinois, he pairs operational rigor with a willingness to stay hands-on in code when it matters, and has a long track record of converting complex customer needs into practical product and process improvements.
24 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
KohlerLake Park High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
ruby-rails10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby10
postgresql9
api8
database-management8
apidoc8
drupal6
php6
rets6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:469 commits, 3 PRs, 76 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Keith primarily worked on improving and maintaining the Canvas LMS codebase. Their contributions focused on fixing bugs related to assignment overrides, anonymous grading, and gradebook exports. The user also made improvements to grade calculation logic and enrollment processes, contributing to the core functionality of the grading system. Furthermore, the user added code to support the new speedgrader.
lmsinstructurecanvas-lmsgerrit-mirror
ktgeek/packages
Jun 2021 - Feb 2026
Community maintained packages for OpenWrt. Documentation for submitting pull requests is in CONTRIBUTING.md
Contributions:70 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 8 months
pull-requestsopenwrtesxi
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