Pearce Keesling
Principal Mobile Engineer at Quicken
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPearce Keesling is a Principal Mobile Engineer with 12 years of experience building cross-platform user-facing products and robust backend services. He combines deep systems-level skills in C, C++, and Rust with practical JavaScript and Java expertise to deliver performant mobile and embedded solutions. At companies from Jolt to Quicken he has shipped React-based UIs, Bluetooth device tooling, and imaging pipelines for sensor-equipped devices, and progressed from individual contributor to technical lead. Pearce is an active open-source contributor—his work on i3status-rust added package-update and temperature-monitoring blocks, demonstrating attention to resource-friendly, low-level tooling. Based in Mesa, Arizona and grounded in a Computer Science education from BYU, he excels at bridging embedded systems concerns with polished application experiences. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, efficient implementations that tame complexity across the stack.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, High School High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at International School of BrusselsBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
rust10
pacman10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
temperature-sensor8
system-monitoring8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
greshake/i3status-rust
May 2017 - May 2017
Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Pearce primarily focused on adding and refining a Pacman block for the i3status-rust project, developing functionality to display the number of available updates. They implemented the block using Rust, integrated it into the i3status configuration, and made subsequent improvements to the code's clarity and efficiency. The user also worked on incorporating temperature monitoring functionality, adding the necessary infrastructure to display data from sensors.
rustfeature-richpure-rusti3statusreplacement
keeslinp/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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