Ross Keenan
Senior Software Developer at ReturnX
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRoss Keenan is a Senior Software Developer based in Cape Town with five years’ experience building production-grade web applications and leading small agile teams. He combines full-stack expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Vue/SvelteKit, Node, SQL/MongoDB and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) with a strong background in automation and data-driven decision making from earlier analytics roles. At ReturnX he led the B2B product Dripcel that sends millions of customer communications monthly and built internal pipelines that increased lead volumes and converted sales by 45%. Ross excels at crafting bespoke internal tooling and optimized data pipelines that both boost operational efficiency and unlock new commercial opportunities. His unusual blend of psychology and investment-management education informs a user- and business-focused approach to engineering and team mentorship.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Honours, PSYCHOLOGY, Honours, PSYCHOLOGY at SACAP (The South African College of Applied Psychology)University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans, German
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Github Skills (200)
graph-algorithms10
authentication10
deno-deploy10
hierarchy10
bank10
graph-theory10
auth10
in-progress10
api10
vault10
phrase10
jwt10
graph10
community-detection10
query-language10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SkepticMystic/pivot
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 1 month
SkepticMystic/Phrase-Bank
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
A community-maintained phrase bank, with an Obsidian plugin to select phrases
Contributions:1 review, 126 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
phrasesobsidian-mdobsidian-pluginobsidianbank
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