Michael Keeling
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Kiavi
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Keeling is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience who helps teams improve delivery by blending deep software engineering, architecture, and Agile practice expertise. He has driven quality and process improvements across startups and large enterprises, including IBM and Kiavi, and authored the book Design It! From Programmer to Software Architect. Comfortable contributing across the lifecycle, Michael pairs hands-on programming (C#, Java, JavaScript, Ruby) with formal methods, requirements engineering, and risk-driven design. He’s led studio teams at Carnegie Mellon and built commercial-grade RIA tools, demonstrating an unusual combination of academic rigor and practical product delivery. Known for tailoring XP, Scrum, and Kanban to real teams, he routinely reduces defects and increases predictability while mentoring engineers into architects. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a pragmatic architect’s mindset to solve messy, real-world software problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSE Software Engineering, MSE Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at William & Mary
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Github Skills (57)
watson-explorer10
architecture9
webservice9
java9
step-functions9
microservices8
watson8
ibm-watson8
design-patterns8
android8
cloud-services8
ibm-cloud8
gradle7
sdk7
ktlint7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
michaelkeeling/saturn2018-growing-great-software-designers-workshop
Feb 2018 - May 2019
How do we develop the next generation of software designers?
Contributions:64 commits, 12 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 2 months
next-generationdesigners
michaelkeeling/saturn2017-architecture-functional-workshop
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 months
saturnsoftware-architectureworkshopartifactsparadigms
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