Tom Keiser
Director, Innovation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Keiser is a seasoned software architect and director of innovation with 21 years building large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems from the kernel up. Currently leading innovation at Zscaler after Edgewise’s acquisition, he specializes in multithreaded and asynchronous systems, distributed files/databases, and autonomic resource allocation to drive robust, self-tuning platforms. Tom’s work blends deep systems engineering—kernel, storage, and networking—with product-minded risk mitigation techniques that de-risk greenfield projects by mapping failure modes and clipping long-tail schedule risk. He has a track record of shipping storage-optimized replication systems and dramatically improving operational stability in large deployments (including multi-order-of-magnitude server recycle time reductions). Based in Chicago, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a research-flavored curiosity about interaction effects across stack layers—e.g., how ccNUMA or stale measurements influence load balancing decisions.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (8)
visualization9
security7
access-control7
auditing5
compliance5
privacy4
devsecops4
cloud-native4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EdgewiseNetworks/luabind-deboostified
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Create Lua bindings for your C++ code easily - my improvements
Contributions:7 pushes in 10 months
luacpptrinitycoreazerothcoredefold
libkeiser/Saga
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
A Ghost theme designed for photostories :sunrise_over_mountains:
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 months
ghostmountainssunriseghost-theme
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