Michael Keen
Chief Commercial And Strategy Officer
Urbandale, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Keen is a strategic leader who helps CEOs and boards convert geopolitical, regulatory, and supply-chain signals into disciplined capital and operating decisions, drawing on 15+ years advising Fortune 500, PE-backed, and mid-market firms. As Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer at SnapStrat and founder-level advisor at Ridgeline, he built the Decision Signal System: a repeatable indicator-to-action framework that links thresholds and scenario models to clear executive decision points. His work spans practical applications—export controls, sanctions, regional instability, and data sovereignty—to sequence investments, reduce exposure, and align timing with risk appetite. A former enterprise architect and customer-success leader, he pairs technical fluency (node, Go, Rust, Python) and hands-on product delivery with board-level rigor. He contributes to open-source developer tooling and technical documentation (notably clarifying Vyper smart-contract docs), underscoring a builder’s mindset alongside strategy. Two Everest summits early in his career are a telling metaphor: he prioritizes timing, judgment, and disciplined execution when stakes are high.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Program LEAD program, Executive Program LEAD program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessCertificate Startup Valuation Methods, Certificate Startup Valuation Methods at Duke University - The Fuqua School of BusinessBS Finance/Economics, BS Finance/Economics at University of Colorado BoulderCertificate Business Model Innovation, Certificate Business Model Innovation at HEC Paris
Github Skills (4)
technical-writing10
documentation10
vyper10
ethereum9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vyperlang/vyper
May 2018 - May 2018
Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the project by updating and improving the documentation, specifically focusing on the built-in functions section. Their commits include fixing formatting errors, correcting labels, and adding deployment notes for an RLP decoder. The user's work clarifies the usage of functions and provides instructions for external deployment of a key component. These contributions enhance the usability and understanding of the Vyper language.
pythonsmart-contractethereumcontractblockchain
mkeen/mkeen.github.com
Jun 2011 - May 2018
Contributions:3 commits in 6 years 11 months
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