Keith Hughes
Contract Work at Steadi Systems
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Hughes is an experienced software generalist and entrepreneur with 11+ years of recent experience building cloud-native, microservices-driven systems and guiding engineering culture. He has held senior and founding roles—from Staff Engineer at Google to CTO and founder positions—designing distributed architectures using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, Kafka, Vault, and cloud platforms while also driving product and business decisions. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and technical leader, he emphasizes code quality, automated testing, and responsiveness to product needs. He pairs hands-on backend engineering (secure data pipelines and healthcare integrations) with real-world product experience running a plant-based food business and teaching IoT and programming. Based in Longmont, Colorado, Keith blends deep systems expertise with a knack for turning consulting projects into product lines and mentoring teams through technical transitions.
11 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
MS Physics, MS Physics at University of WashingtonMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (102)
arcadedb10
orientdb10
graph-store10
nosql9
charts9
rest9
sql9
payment9
api9
database9
stripe-api9
high-performance9
relational-databases9
graph-database9
fuse9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smartspaces-io/smartspaces-sandbox
Feb 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
smartspaces-io/smartspaces
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
The home of the SmartSpaces API and runtime
Contributions:110 commits, 429 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 3 months
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