Keith Mascarenhas
Senior Software Engineer II Lead at Akamai Technologies
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Mascarenhas is a Senior Software Engineer II Lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building web and backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Akamai Technologies in Sunnyvale. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Akamai since 2013, combining deep Rails and Django experience with production-scale system work and team leadership. Keith has a track record of rapid ramp-ups and shipping features quickly—historically delivering first releases in weeks and driving migrations such as SVN-to-Git—and brings strong full-stack instincts from early freelance and co-op work. Comfortable across Python, Ruby on Rails, and modern web tooling, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an emphasis on test-driven development and performance optimization. Based in the Bay Area and holding an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern, he balances stable enterprise impact with a doer mentality captured succinctly in his GitHub bio: "GSD."
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Certificate, Computer Science, Higher Secondary Certificate, Computer Science at SIES College of Arts. Science and CommerceSecondary School Certificate, Secondary School Certificate at St. John the Baptist High School, ThaneMS CS, Computer Science, MS CS, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor Of Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Marathi, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (26)
json-data8
initialization6
django-models6
api6
rest6
jqgrid6
rails6
jquery6
python6
django6
enums6
faraday6
mysql6
rest-api5
restful5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keithxm23/chromeytpoll
Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
keithxm23/chess_chat
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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