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Keith Collison

@keithcollison

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I build reliable cloud platforms, automation, and high-scale backend systems.

United States

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I'm a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps, following a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role there focused on dependable systems and operations.

Previously at Engage Financial Technology, I automated backend deployments and CI pipelines with Ansible and Jenkins, maintained Kubernetes for Spring Boot microservices, and established metrics, log aggregation, and on-call workflows using StatsD, DataDog, and PagerDuty.

At Verve Mobile, I built a mobile advertising integration engine serving more than 300 million HTTP requests per day, peaking at 9,600 transactions per second.

Across roles at CSA Travel Protection, Illumina, Syntricity, and others, I've delivered AWS migrations, event-driven services, deployment automation, observability, database automation, and developer workflows that make production systems easier to operate.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Current

Weedmaps

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 6 months)

Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps, responsible for ensuring reliability and performance of systems.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Weedmaps

Oct 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Worked as Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Weedmaps.

Senior Software Engineer

Engage Financial Technology

Oct 2017 - Oct 2021 (4 years)

Automated deployment for backend applications using Ansible and Jenkins.
Created continuous integration pipelines for all backend code, including Spring Boot applications, using Jenkins.
Collected performance and system metrics using StatsD with reporting in DataDog.
Instituted log aggregation, collecting application and system logs, for easy querying in DataDog.
Created and maintained Kubernetes

Principal Software Engineer

CSA Travel Protection

Feb 2017 - Jun 2017 (4 months)

Instituted continuous integration using Jenkins, automating job creation for newly created branches via pipelines.

Led team to internationalize ID theft prevention web site, using Spring MVC and REST.

Instrumental in AWS migration efforts, creating Ansible playbooks orchestrating deployments for Wildfly and Tomcat web applications.

Instituted code review process using Gitlab.

Implemented git f

Software Engineer

Illumina

Jun 2015 - Jan 2016 (7 months)

Worked with team to create internal service bus, backed by Kafka, providing event-driven lab automation.

Collaborated on REST API front-end of service bus, using Resteasy and Guice. Leveraged swagger/swagger-ui so that API documentation was generated from the code, reducing integration errors that may result from miscommunication.

Instrumented application code to emit metrics via StatsD, allow

Sr. Software Engineer

Syntricity

Sep 2014 - May 2015 (8 months)

Lead effort to install Jira issue/project tracking tool. Provided training on its use to staff.

Tripled the amount of unit tests executed upon each commit from 300 to 900.

Introduced dependency management to build process using Ivy.

Designed and created report workflow feature, allowing users one-click report generation within the application. Backing code leveraged Groovy to automate what ha

Software Engineer

Verve Mobile

Jun 2008 - Feb 2014 (5 years 8 months)

Streamlined application lifecycle, from build, test, release and deployment, using Maven, Jenkins, and Capistrano.

Created mobile advertising integration engine which served more than 300 millions of HTTP requests per day, peaking at 9600 transactions per second..

Developed Domain Specific Language (DSL) that enabled quick integration with other advertising networks.

Collaborated with others to