Connor Keane
Developer | Tinkerer | Science Enthusiast
KXNR
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CONNOR KEANE
Berkeley, CA // github.com/kxnr
SUMMARY

Curious Software Engineer with broad data engineering and system design experience in both large codebases and greenfield development. Adept at creating software that uplifts team productivity and streamlines existing workflows.

EXPERIENCE
Staff Software Engineer // Ascend Analytics
February 2024 - Present
Senior Software Engineer // Ascend Analytics
July 2022 - January 2024
Software Engineer // Ascend Analytics
August 2021 - June 2022
Responsible for development of data infrastructure and integration with electrical grid systems for a real-time optimization platform
  • Used Apache Datafusion to increase data throughput by 400% at half the original cost
  • Created structures for integration with client and grid systems, enabling a team of three developers to write and maintain over a dozen integrations
  • Led development of two greenfield projects and supported launch to clients
  • Presented 4 internal talks and run a monthly continuing education forum
  • Built developer tooling for deployment to and management of Azure cloud resources enabling entirely automated release process
Data and Programming Specialist // University of Pennsylvania
June 2019 - March 2021
Solo maintainer of neuroscience research applications and data analysis software
  • Maintained analysis pipeline for human behavior and electrophysiology data, including voice recognition and both supervised and unsupervised classification of neural time series data
  • Extended internally developed libraries to support a novel type of memory experiment and deployed this experiment to online, scalp EEG, and intracranial EEG participants
  • Re-implemented or adapted existing experiments to run online during the COVID-19 pandemic
Research Assistant // Swarthmore College
January 2018 - August 2018
Studied mouth opening dynamics of freshwater round worms
Human Computer Interaction Intern // NASA Ames
Summer 2015 & 2016
Prototyped user interfaces for distributed sensor data using IoT and Augmented Reality technologies under the guidance of graduate students
EDUCATION

Swarthmore College
BA in Cognitive Science
Minor in Physics

SKILLS
Languages //
  • Python
  • Rust
  • HTML/CSS
  • C#
  • Javascript
  • Racket
Libraries //
  • Flask
  • Datafusion
  • Starlette
  • Pandas
  • Tailwind
  • NumPy
Tools //
  • Azure
  • git
  • Terraform
  • Linux