Summary
Keith Perkins is a versatile computer science instructor and software engineer with nine years of academic experience and over two decades of industry work spanning computer vision, machine learning, and secure communications. He has applied CNNs and time-series techniques to medical imaging and other structured data, and his augmented reality work earned a US patent in collaboration with NASA Langley. Earlier roles at Symantec and other firms gave him deep, practical expertise in C++, SSL/TLS, PKI, and multithreaded systems for high-performance secure communications. As an educator he designs and teaches hands-on courses in data science, C++, operating systems, and Android development, publishing example projects and course materials on GitHub. He combines research-grade ML experience with production-grade security engineering, making him adept at turning complex, safety- or privacy-sensitive problems into teachable, deployable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University