Summary
Keith Perry is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 10+ years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and leading teams through large migrations and cloud adoption. Based in Cedar Rapids, he has advanced through multiple senior engineering and management roles at GoDaddy, specializing recently in Golang, Kinesis streaming, and migrating applications to modern architectures. His background includes designing highly available services and optimizing legacy scientific code (including a 600% performance improvement in C++ primer design) from earlier work in bioinformatics and cloud experimentation. Keith combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and delivery leadership, having introduced CI/CD, DVCS, and Agile practices at prior employers. He pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with practical research experience in HCI and a history of solving throughput- and scale-oriented problems across diverse industries.
10 years of coding experience