About

Keith Woody is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 16 years of experience in developing web applications and APIs using Ruby on Rails. He is proficient in various technologies including Ruby, Rails 5, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Haml, XML, Heroku, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), RSpec, Guard, Capybara, FactoryGirl, VCR, and Jenkins CI. Keith has exposure to Elasticsearch, MongoDB, D3.js, WebSockets, Java, JSP, Servlets, Python, iOS, Mandrill, and Mailchimp. Currently, Keith is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Appen, a company that specializes in data annotation and collection for machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is responsible for designing and developing web applications and APIs using Ruby on Rails, Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. Keith is interested in UI implementation, database design, and process modeling. Previously, Keith worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Authorrise, where he streamlined data import by 80% through reducing form input from 5 fields to a single author page link with Amazon Product Marketing API integration to update page completion progress using Ruby, Rails, and Pusher. He also built an author notification system using Ruby, Rails, and Mandrill to send alerts when statistically significant improvements to a book’s Best Seller Rank occurred, greatly increasing user engagement by 100%. Keith quadrupled (4X increase) ad management capacity by creating an admin system for Facebook advertisements using Ruby on Rails which automated creating and tracking 400 campaigns on a weekly basis. He iterated through 5 product phases in 18 months to develop a service to increase monthly revenue by 300%. Keith also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Lyricle, where he updated Rails 3.2 API to accommodate client platform change from iOS to Android reducing costs by $10,000. He migrated the database from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch persistence model to allow for projected 10X scale. Keith doubled potential revenue streams (100% increase) through integrating Google Play Store API for in-app purchases into Ruby on Rails backend to enable players to purchase coins for game-play items. Keith holds a BS degree in Creative Studies with an emphasis on Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a highly motivated and detail-oriented software engineer with a passion for building high-quality web applications and APIs.