Keith Philpott
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Philpott is a Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building web and data systems, currently shaping platform and product direction at Atlassian after leading AI-driven content and GenAI standards at Graphite. He has designed scalable data architectures and pipelines—from Elasticsearch migrations and ETL job graphs at Yummly to topic-based knowledge graphs and CI/CD reliability at Graphite—bridging ML/AI, analytics, and frontend ergonomics. A thoughtful engineer who cares deeply about software quality, reliability, and rapid iteration, he mentors teams and elevates developer velocity through monorepo and CI/CD best practices. Keith is a passionate open-source contributor with meaningful touches in CPython and Mypy and a long-running presence in the Python community as founder of the East Bay Python Meetup. He pairs a nontraditional academic background in music with pragmatic systems design, which shows up in a focus on usability and elegant, maintainable tooling. Outside work he channels product intuition into side projects like a recipe-versioning app, reflecting an appetite for practical, user-centered experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music at Vassar College
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (37)
static-typing10
programming-language10
python10
validation10
type-safety10
typechecker10
formsets10
typesafe10
html-generation10
linter10
django-framework9
jquery-plugin9
functional-programming9
django-admin9
html9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yummly/validaze
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Hiccup-inspired DSL implementation of refinement types for validating JSON data.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
dsljson-datarefinement-types
keithasaurus/koda-validate
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Typesafe, Composable Validation
Contributions:17 releases, 2 reviews, 885 commits in 1 year
typesafepythonpython310python311python38
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