Summary
Patrick Keating is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Bluefire Productions, where he’s guided the company since 2006 in building Bluefire Reader, a leading white-label eReading solution for publishers and retailers. With 13+ years of experience spanning backend services, multimedia front-ends, and mobile platforms, he combines deep technical skills in Java, Objective-C, Android, iOS, ePub and publishing DRM technologies with product-focused leadership. He previously founded Kythe Inc., built multimedia and 3D experiences at Mesmer, and taught digital media, giving him a rare mix of entrepreneurial, creative and instructional experience. Patrick’s work centers on marrying technology, creativity and good design to solve real content distribution problems at scale. Based in Seattle, he brings practical expertise in agile development and publishing infrastructures like Adobe ACS and RMSDK that many engineering leaders lack.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University