Keith Alexander

Background

About Keith Alexander

Results-oriented Software Architect and Engineer with 25+ years in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of various applications. Comfortable switching between architecture, coding, support, and mentoring. Thorough experience in all levels of product delivery including source control, defect management, performance tracking, deployment, and operations.• Hands-on design, coding, and implementation of software solutions• Windows Server, C++, MS SQL Server, Lua, C#, Java, Linux• Market data systems, high-throughput, low-latency, monitoring, deployment, motion control• Object-oriented, multi-threading, client-server, messaging, scalability, optimizationWhen designing software, I focus on long-term reusability. Object-oriented design allows me the flexibility to build a structure that can incorporate future innovations driven by new opportunities. The business benefits include faster time to market and system stability through shared improvements.I was on the ground floor in creating a solid framework for data distribution and continued to reinvent the framework while engineers used it to assemble systems we designed. Connecting components for input, data processing, and output defined the overall application, while adjusting options on those components set specific behaviors.I would revisit each portion of the framework for efficiency, as latency and throughput fought each other for dominance, and transactions went from seconds down to mics and nanos. The trick is to keep the big picture in mind while squeezing performance from the hardware.I have found patterns for scalability and critical path management that have enhanced the framework with interoperability and pipelining. I have designed operational monitoring into each component and centralized reporting functions so that each new system is integrated and consistently managed. The result was an evolving but stable environment that I am proud to have been responsible for.