Sidney Keese
Staff Engineer at AuditBoard
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSidney Keese is a Staff Engineer based in Los Angeles with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems, developer tooling, and front-end component workflows. He has deep hands-on expertise in integrating Rust-based cryptographic libraries and automating complex build and parameter-fetching pipelines for Filecoin, while also improving UI component development at Signal by migrating key pieces to Storybook. At companies from startups to AuditBoard, he balances backend/devops rigor with practical front-end improvements, enabling teams to ship secure, testable features faster. Colleagues know him for turning fiddly build and dependency pain points into reproducible, automated processes—a pragmatic engineer who both writes code and smooths the developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (30)
storybook10
ui-components10
typescript10
go10
filecoin10
front-end-development10
cryptography10
typescript-types10
rust10
typescripts10
react10
api-design9
testing9
javascript9
cicd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
signalapp/Signal-Desktop
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sidney's contributions focused on migrating various Signal Desktop components to Storybook, a tool for UI component development and testing. This involved creating story files for components like `SafetyNumberNotification`, `CompositionInput`, `Spinner`, `ConversationListItem`, `DocumentListItem`, `Emoji`, `ScrollDownButton`, `MainHeader`, `MediaGallery`, and several "Staged" components. This work indicates a strong emphasis on improving the component library's usability and maintainability through better isolation and visualization.
signalwindowselectronchatlinux
filecoin-project/venus
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 14 PRs, 56 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sidney's contributions primarily focused on integrating and managing dependencies, particularly related to Rust-based cryptographic libraries like `bls-signatures` and `rust-fil-proofs`. They implemented validation for parameters, updated submodules, and set up the required tooling (e.g., `rustup`). Furthermore, the user worked on build processes, including the use of precompiled libraries and automated download mechanisms. The user also worked on the piece inclusion proof feature and CommRs ordering.
golangfilecoinfull-nodeblockchainvenus
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