# Pearce Keesling

Pearce Keesling is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Quicken, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@pearcekeesling

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Senior software engineer specializing in mobile-first, cloud-native SaaS platforms with strong security focus.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Open to opportunities |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Job categories | Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Cloud Architect, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Engineering Manager, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, Senior Software Developer, Software Engineer |
| Skills | Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C, Ruby, C C++, PHP, SQL, Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, React Native, Flutter, React, Next.js, Vue.Js, Angular, Redux, NestJS, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, fastAPI, EthersJS, Ruby on Rails, REST APIs, GraphQL, gRPC, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, CI CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, NodeJS, OAuth, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, Kafka, SNS, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jest, Junit, Pytest, LLM, OpenAI API, JWT, RBAC, MFA, HIPAA Compliant Software, .NET, ASP.NET, Airflow, Android Studio, Ansible, Apache HTTP Server, AppGyver, Auth0, Azure DevOps, Azure Functions, Burp suite, Chai, Checkov, CircleCi, ClickUp, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Workers, Cocoapods, Cosmos, Dask, Datadog, Delta Lake, DigitalOcean, Docker Compose, Doppler, Elasticsearch, Espresso, Ethereum, Factory, Fivetran, Gemini, GitHub, Gitlab, Gitlab CI, Google Cloud Functions, Gradle, Hadoop, Hardhat, Heroku, Hugging Face, Infura, Jetpack, Jira, JOLT, Keras, Keycloak, Kibana, Kubeflow, LakeFS, LangGraph, LightGBM, Logstash, Loki, MLFlow, MQTT, Material UI, Mediapipe, MemCached, Microsoft Teams, Mocha, Mockito, NATS, Nginx, Netlify, New Relic, NumPy, Nuxt.Js, OWASP ZAP, Okta, OpenCV, OutSystems, Pandas, Polars, Polygon, Pulumi, PyTorch, React Testing Library, Serverless, Snyk, Solana, SonarQube, Splunk, Talend, TeamCity, TensorFlow, Travis CI, Trello, Trino, Trivy, Truffle, Vercel, Web3.js, XCTest, XGBoost, XCode, ZAP, Zapier, DBT, Fastlane, iOS, Monday.Com, S3 Lambda, scikit learn, Tailwind, ArgoCD |

## What I'm looking for

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I seek impactful roles building secure, scalable mobile and cloud SaaS platforms with strong engineering practices, mentorship opportunities, and measurable user impact.
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## About

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I am a senior software engineer with 10 years building scalable, secure mobile and cloud-first SaaS platforms across Fintech and Digital Health, specializing in iOS/Android development, microservices architecture, and high-performance AWS systems.

At Quicken I led mobile development and cloud sync redesigns that reduced transaction duplication and sync failures by 40%, improved rendering speed by 30%, and achieved 99.9% uptime for key services; I previously architected HIPAA-compliant, scalable microservices and AI personalization engines at LifeOmic serving millions of users.

I emphasize secure-by-design engineering (OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, MFA, HIPAA-aligned controls), observability, automated CI/CD, and mentoring engineers to raise team velocity and reliability while delivering measurable user and business improvements.
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## Experience

### Senior Full-Stack Engineer (current)

Quicken. Jun 2022 - Present

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Led mobile and cloud feature development for Quicken Classic Mobile and Simplifi, rebuilding sync workflows and backend services to reduce sync failures by 40% and API latency by 35% while achieving 99.9% uptime.
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Skills: OAuth, Swift, Kotlin, Java, PostgreSQL, AWS-ECS, REST-APIs, CI-CD, Mobile-Sync, Performance-Optimization

### Senior Software Engineer

LifeOmic. May 2019 - Jun 2022

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Architected HIPAA-compliant microservices and ML-driven personalization for LifeOmic’s digital health platform, improving throughput for biometric ingestion and increasing engagement by 35% and retention by 20%.
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Skills: EC2, Python, RDS, S3, Lambda, React-Native, PostgreSQL, Redis, Microservices, HIPAA-compliance, CI-CD

### Software Engineer

Jolt. Jun 2016 - May 2019

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Developed core SaaS task-management features and scalable REST APIs, improving task completion efficiency and achieving 99.9% uptime for real-time synchronization across customer sites.
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Skills: React, TypeScript, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, JWT, Mocha, API-Design

## Education

### Brigham Young University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. 2016 - 2019

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Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, cloud systems, and mobile development.
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## Tech stack

- Fivetran
- Splunk
- Talend
- Ethereum
- DigitalOcean
- GitHub
- GitLab
- SonarQube
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- Cloudflare
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Travis CI
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- React Native
- NumPy
- Pandas
- Dask
- dbt
- DB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Memcached
- Hadoop
- CocoaPods
- Node.js
- Django
- Spring Boot
- Ruby on Rails
- Next.js
- NestJS
- .NET
- Tailwind CSS
- Nuxt.js
- Material-UI
- Microsoft Teams
- Okta
- OpenCV
- Redis
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Android Studio
- Xcode
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Gradle
- Mocha
- Chai
- Vue.js
- JavaScript
- Java
- PHP
- Kotlin
- ASP.NET
- Logstash
- Loki
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- MLflow
- scikit-learn
- Keras
- Kubeflow
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- MQTT
- FastAPI
- OutSystems
- fastlane
- SwiftUI
- Grafana
- Kibana
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- iOS
- ZAP
- New Relic
- Datadog
- Heroku
- Trello
- ClickUp
- Gemini
- GraphQL
- NATS
- gRPC
- Elasticsearch
- OpenSearch
- Doppler
- Ansible
- Serverless
- Google Cloud Functions
- Azure Functions
- Vercel
- Netlify
- monday.com
- pytest
- JUnit
- React Testing Library
- Mockito
- Auth0
- Keycloak
- OAuth2
- NGINX
- Apache HTTP Server
- Zapier
- Airflow
- Zap
- s3-lambda
- SQL
- XCTest
- TeamCity
- XGBoost
- Espresso
- Hugging Face
- Ethers.js
- LightGBM
- Snyk
- Burp Suite
- Jetpack
- LangChain
- Cloudflare Workers
- Polars
- Trivy
- Hardhat
- Delta Lake
- Infura
- OpenAI API
- Truffle
- LakeFS
- Trino
- Web3.js
- Solana
- Argo CD
- OWASP ZAP
- Cosmos
- AppGyver
- Checkov
- LangGraph
- Polygon
- Make
- Jolt
- Task
- Factory
- MediaPipe

To contact Pearce, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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