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I’m a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience leading engineering teams of up to 45 engineers and contributing across international environments in the US, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Germany. I enjoy building framework-level systems—backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI tooling—and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready software. I’m deeply passionate about architecture, system design, debugging, performance optimization, and production reliability. I’ve shipped AI-powered workflows using RAG, embeddings, vector search, and function calling, integrated LLM inference into enterprise apps, and built internal tooling and MCP servers to securely expose data for AI agents.…I’m a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience leading engineering teams of up to 45 engineers and contributing across international environments in the US, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Germany. I enjoy building framework-level systems—backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI tooling—and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready software. I’m deeply passionate about architecture, system design, debugging, performance optimization, and production reliability. I’ve shipped AI-powered workflows using RAG, embeddings, vector search, and function calling, integrated LLM inference into enterprise apps, and built internal tooling and MCP servers to securely expose data for AI agents.

Van Keith

Full Stack Developer, AI Engineer, DevOps Developer, +1

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I’m a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience leading engineering teams of up to 45 engineers and contributing across international environments in the US, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Germany. I enjoy building framework-level systems—backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI tooling—and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready software. I’m deeply passionate about architecture, system design, debugging, performance optimization, and production reliability. I’ve shipped AI-powered workflows using RAG, embeddings, vector search, and function calling, integrated LLM inference into enterprise apps, and built internal tooling and MCP servers to securely expose data for AI agents.…I’m a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience leading engineering teams of up to 45 engineers and contributing across international environments in the US, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Germany. I enjoy building framework-level systems—backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI tooling—and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready software. I’m deeply passionate about architecture, system design, debugging, performance optimization, and production reliability. I’ve shipped AI-powered workflows using RAG, embeddings, vector search, and function calling, integrated LLM inference into enterprise apps, and built internal tooling and MCP servers to securely expose data for AI agents.

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I’m a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience leading engineering teams of up to 45 engineers and contributing across international environments in the US, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Germany. I enjoy building framework-level systems—backend, frontend, data pipelines, and AI tooling—and turning ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready software.

I’m deeply passionate about architecture, system design, debugging, performance optimization, and production reliability. I’ve shipped AI-powered workflows using RAG, embeddings, vector search, and function calling, integrated LLM inference into enterprise apps, and built internal tooling and MCP servers to securely expose data for AI agents.

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Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead at Domino’s

January 1, 2025 - Present

Led architecture and implementation across backend services, observability platforms, data orchestration pipelines, and internal AI applications using Python, FastAPI, SQL Server, Greenplum, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Monitor, and KQL. Architected distributed logging and data processing systems handling up to 150 million records per hour, optimizing windowing, batching, database writes, and instrumentation. Designed schemas, ingestion and retry strategies, and idempotent workflows moving data between SQL Server, Greenplum, S3, SFTP, and Azure services. Authored internal Python packages (Pizzascope and Pizzapy) to standardize integrations and data transfers. Built RESTful APIs and backend service layers coordinating asynchronous processes across application, database, observability, and infrastructure boundaries. Migrated 40+ low-code ETL workflows to Python-based pipelines, enabling over $400k in annual technology savings. Led deployment of Ollama-hosted LLMs on NVIDIA A100

Senior Software Engineer at Australian Community Media

January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Shipped features across ACM’s national news platform serving 21M+ monthly active Australians across 130+ regional mastheads. Reduced page load times by 70% through optimized Django queries, React refactors, and caching. Designed and launched a paywall system that increased subscription revenue by roughly 75% across the masthead network. Architected a video player component integrated with Dailymotion deployed across multiple sites. Led on-call incident response during peak events (election nights, breaking news), resolving issues within minutes to keep sites online. Maintained a service-oriented backend with about a dozen Django apps, delivering consistent performance across Python, Django, PostgreSQL, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Docker, and GitLab CI.

Senior Software Engineer at Wayfarer Hotels

January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024

Partnered with CTO on architectural decisions, leading Kabin hotel platform end-to-end and delivering iOS and Android apps. Increased site performance by 57% through optimized Django queries and React Native state management; modernized in-room guest experiences with in-room ordering features. Built backend APIs in Python, Django REST Framework, and PostgreSQL, deployed on AWS EC2 with nginx and bjoern; introduced Poetry for dependency management and CI tooling via GitHub Actions.

Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead at Questronix Corporation

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022

Promoted to Technical Lead, steering architecture and technical direction across multiple concurrent client and internal projects. Managed and mentored developers, project managers, product owners and interns across active initiatives. Part of the engineering hiring loop, screening and interviewing new engineers, mentoring developers and interns and onboarding hires into the team's workflows and standards.

Senior Software Engineer at Questronix Corporation

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021

Led the development of a single sign-on system end-to-end using Firebase, Python and TypeScript; built and shipped web and mobile applications across client engagements using Django REST Framework, React, React Native, Vue, Node.js and IBM API Connect. Improved code health and delivery velocity by introducing reusable component libraries, documentation standards, and containerized CI/CD pipelines.

Quality Assurance Engineer at Deltek

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019

Investigated software defects, performance issues and production bugs across Deltek's enterprise product suite, supporting patch planning and quality improvements. Built and maintained automated test suites using Selenium for regression and integration testing across web-based products. Operated within enterprise development environments including RedHat OpenShift and IBM Cloud, executing both manual and automated test workflows. Received the Defect Chaser Award for consistently identifying critical pre-release defects.

Quality Assurance Engineer at Meta, App & Gaming

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018

Supported the launch and ongoing development of the Facebook Gaming app fb.gg through manual and automated testing workflows. Built Selenium-based test scripts to validate core user flows, gameplay integrations and UI behavior across releases. Authored detailed bug reports, reproduction steps and regression test cases used by the development team to triage and resolve issues.

Software Engineer at Dubai Offshore

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020

Built software solutions for clients across food and beverage, salon and spa, manpower and inventory management industries using Python, Django REST Framework and React. Modernized legacy Python and Java APIs and deployed applications on AWS EC2 and DigitalOcean. Maintained and developed a Point of Sale Management System for a Dubai-based salon and spa. Designed and maintained a comprehensive Manpower Inventory and Services System for a manufacturing and warehousing company, utilizing Django REST Framework for the backend and React for the frontend.