Keith Valin
Performance And Scale Software Engineer at Red Hat
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeith Valin is a Performance and Scale Software Engineer at Red Hat with a decade of hands-on experience building and tuning systems across C(++), Python, JavaScript/React, and Bash. Self-taught in system administration, he has run and secured his own VPS and email server, and managed diverse Linux distributions (Arch, Debian, Fedora) for over six years. He’s contributed full-stack and VR web work as a project lead for MYR at UMass Lowell, guiding repo management, code review, and deployments while balancing academic work toward a CS master’s. Comfortable across cloud and on-prem tooling, he has applied practical security and automation practices in projects from HIPAA-aware local infrastructure to AWS-backed deployments. Known for blending low-level performance focus with user-facing feature delivery, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first perspective to scaling real-world services.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
8th - 12th Grade, 8th - 12th Grade at Academy for Science and DesignUMass Lowell
Github Skills (80)
aframe10
editing10
online-editor10
nfd9
webvr9
react9
bare9
javascript8
backend8
authentication8
saml8
identity8
keycloak8
openid-connect8
wrapper8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GardenWolfGroup/TailBone
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 releases, 217 commits, 102 pushes in 4 months
engaging-computing/MYR-backend
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
This is the backend for MYR.
Contributions:33 reviews, 71 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 3 months
backendnodejs
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