Sam Keen
Founder, Researcher, Writer at AlteredCraft
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorSam Keen is a founder, researcher, and writer who distills 26 years of production software experience into practical guidance for developers navigating AI and software craftsmanship. Having led cloud and generative-AI initiatives at AWS and built cloud engineering teams at Lululemon and Nike, he combines hands-on architecture with mentorship and delivery-focused leadership. As founder of AlteredCraft and co-leader of Portland AI Engineers, he translates cutting-edge techniques into usable workflows rather than hype, backed by two years of shipping GenAI prototypes and production systems on AWS Bedrock and custom RAG stacks. He authored Clean Architecture with Python and is known for improving deployment velocity and infrastructure automation via IaC and vector-backed content systems. Based in Vancouver, Washington, Sam’s work emphasizes preserving the engineering practices that make teams reliable while selectively adopting AI where it measurably helps.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (85)
sourceforge10
validation9
gdscript9
schema9
json9
game-development8
documentation8
json-schema7
game-engine7
jetbrains7
ssm7
open-source7
php7
jetbrains-ides7
godot6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Lululemon/tight-cli
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Tight is a microframework created and optimized for serverless runtimes.
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
microframeworkruntimesserverlessaws-lambdaoptimized
samkeen/policy-tools
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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