Summary
Pete Keen is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of backend and infrastructure experience, currently based in Ann Arbor and building systems at Gusto after roles at Guideline, Stripe, and ClickFunnels. He excels at designing greenfield services and driving large migrations and cost-saving improvements—examples include a $700k/year compute reduction and a highly reliable affiliate accounting system that paid out over $2M with zero uncorrected errors. Comfortable across Ruby, Python, AWS, Docker, and Terraform, he pairs deep technical ownership with mentoring and consultant experience through Okapi Consulting. Pete’s strength is finding high-leverage improvements in complex systems and seeing them through from design to production, often improving operational velocity and observability along the way.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management and Computer Systems, BS Management and Computer Systems at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater