Patrick O'keeffe
Vice President Of Engineering at Circuit
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick O'Keeffe is a seasoned software engineering executive with 25 years of experience leading large, distributed teams and transforming product organizations across enterprise and cloud domains. Currently Vice President of Engineering in Austin, he has driven product vision and operational rigor for high‑value businesses—scaling teams of hundreds, launching SaaS offerings, and improving reliability to 99.9% availability. He led engineering and M&A integrations at Quest and later focused on real‑time analytics and ML infrastructure at Molecula, where he helped build FeatureBase, a bitmap‑driven analytical database for low‑latency, high‑throughput workloads. Patrick blends hands‑on backend and database engineering (notably contributing SQL endpoints, bulk insert, and system tables to FeatureBase) with empathetic, transparent leadership that prioritizes trust and context. He pairs technical breadth across SaaS, cloud platforms, and multiple languages/databases with a track record of turning strategic roadmaps into measurable business growth. Quietly curious, he continues to mentor teams through change while keeping one foot in the codebase to drive practical architectural improvements.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Western Governors University
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Github contributions (5)
FeatureBaseDB/featurebase
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A crazy fast analytical database, built on bitmaps. Perfect for ML applications. Learn more at: http://docs.featurebase.com/. Start a Docker instance: https://hub.docker.com/r/featurebasedb/featurebase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 270 commits, 43 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the SQL query capabilities of the FeatureBase database. Their work included implementing a new SQL endpoint, adding functionalities like `SHOW TABLES`, and developing bulk insert features for efficient data loading. They also contributed to the database's internal architecture by refactoring code, optimizing performance, and handling timestamp and decimal data types. In addition, the user worked on integrating system tables to provide insights into the database's state.
pythonperfectml-applicationsfiredata-science
paddyjok/ATProtoKit
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
A straightforward solution for using AT Protocol and Bluesky, written in Swift.
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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