Vernon Keenan
Founder & Senior Industry Analyst at Keenan Vision
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolVernon Keenan is a founder and senior industry analyst who blends 25+ years of enterprise software experience with a current focus on AI, Salesforce ecosystem innovation, and DevOps automation. He leads Keenan Vision and publishes SalesforceDevops.net, translating technical advances into practical strategy for executives, investors, and product teams. Vernon’s research introduced frameworks like Virtual Employee Economics and the New Intelligence Gradient, helping organizations quantify the economic and organizational effects of agentic AI. He also runs WorkDifferentWithAI, convening corporate, academic, and startup partners to build evidence-based, human-centered AI policy and open-source tools. Based in Oakland, Vernon pairs hands-on engineering roots (from building telecom billing systems and geo-tax platforms) with an analyst’s ability to spot platform shifts and turn them into market narratives.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High School, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High School, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Fairmont West High SchoolBS-BME, Biomedical Engineering, BS-BME, Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (26)
rest7
parsing7
api7
rest-api7
clerk6
adyen6
react6
api-documentation6
swagger6
nextjs6
prisma6
openapi5
swagger-ui5
code-generator5
open-source4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
taxnexus/go-force
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Go (golang) library for calling Salesforce.com (force.com) web api's
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 22 pushes in 11 months
golangapicallinggolang-libraryapi-s
workdifferentwithai/workdifferentwithai.com
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A free React / Next.js landing page template designed to showcase open source projects, SaaS products, online services, and more. Made by
Contributions:45 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 6 months
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