Keith Mitchell
Backend Software Engineer at Mellomanic
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Mitchell is a backend software engineer and systems thinker with 15 years of experience building high-performance services for gaming, VR, and large-scale web platforms. He has led backend architecture and streaming infrastructure (notably building Vreal’s VR streaming backend) and served as Staff Engineer and tech lead at Reddit, where he contributed to core account management and password-reset workflows in the historical reddit codebase. Comfortable across Go, Python and Linux, he pairs practical systems design with security-minded reviews—recently completing a focused backend security audit at Truewind. A curious tinkerer and founder who enjoys prototyping new ideas, Keith blends production-grade engineering with a creator’s mentality and a long track record of shipping reliable, user-facing systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
caching10
web-development10
back-end-development10
python10
oauth9
reddit9
api-design9
jenkins6
shell6
android6
jenkins-pipeline6
retrofit6
groovy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Jun 2011 - May 2015
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:377 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Keith primarily focused on back-end improvements related to account management and password reset functionality within the Reddit codebase. Their contributions involved modifying core API logic for handling email-based password resets, including storing reset keys in the hardcache for optimized retrieval, as well as refactoring code that determined whether a user would receive an orangered. Additional work centered on adding and improving the blocking feature for users.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
kemitche/l2cs
May 2012 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 48 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 4 months
python-librarypythonamazonsearch-querieslucene
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