Keisha Moore

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Director of Engineering at BlackRock | ex-Qualcomm

BlackRock
Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)
12+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
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Overview

21 years in software engineering, the last 3 at BlackRock, where I lead the public API team. Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely. Grew the public API team from 4 to 25 engineers. Most at home with Redis and Python.

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rate limitingPythonGradleRedis
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Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: API platforms and Gradle

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API platforms, Python, rate limiting
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Engineers moving into leadership

21 years of API platforms. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Denver, CO · remote OKgradlepythonrate limiting
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jun 2023 - Present
    BlackRock · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Moved 70% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Led the migration of 50 services to rate limiting.
  3. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
    Netflix · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 15 a week to 1.
    • Wrote the rate limiting service that now handles 9 million requests a day.
  4. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
    Snowflake · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Shipped 16 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on public API by 41% in two quarters.
  5. Staff Backend Engineer
    Dec 2014 - Jan 2017
    Target · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 15 a week to 2.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Electrical Engineering
    2008 - 2010
  2. University of Washington
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2001 - 2005

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