Keith Swett
Engineering Manager at Western Dakota Tech
Piedmont, South Dakota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Swett is an experienced engineering manager and DevOps practitioner with 11+ years building resilient infrastructure, edge compute, and deployment platforms across startups and enterprise teams. He has led and scaled remote-first platform organizations—most recently driving platform and edge capabilities at Bear Flag Robotics and John Deere—while maintaining hands-on contributions in Linux, networking, and embedded systems. Keith also runs a consulting practice delivering HA/DR and secured open-source-based managed services for government and mission-critical applications, and teaches automation-focused Linux systems courses as an adjunct instructor. Known for turning reactive operations into feature-driven teams, he blends practical tooling, MLOps support, and cybersecurity into production-ready delivery pipelines. Based in rural South Dakota, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level perspective shaped by work from embedded firmware to cloud-native AWS infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Dakota State University
Github Skills (70)
camelcase10
terraform10
snapcraft10
graph10
kanban10
docker-image10
jstree10
transform10
terraform-cloud9
javascript9
hashicorp9
transifex9
declarative9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
goodeggs/ci-runner
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Good Eggs CI runner docker image
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
docker-imageeggsbuildkitdockerci-cd
wdt-linux-class/learning-git
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
git-workflowworkflow
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