Dean Keinan

  • Full Spectrum Engineer
  • New York, NY
  • work@k4n.org
  • dean.page

Work Experience

Fortitude Re

Collaborations Engineer
Dec 2018 - Current
  • Worked on a small team rapidly standing up Fortitude Re as an independent company prior to its sale to The Carlyle Group.
  • Engineered S3 based enterprise SFTP system & downstream serverless ETL APIs in Python, AWS Lambda, SQS to handle high volume financial data with varying compliance and SLA requirements.
  • Cross-team collaboration, deploying Python, Node.js based microservices and internal tools for reinsurance operations.
  • DevOps responsibilities, writing reusable Terraform, ownership of infrastructure for services and applications, managing CICD for application and infrastructure code.

Ticketing Aggregator

Lead Backend Engineer
Mar 2021 - Current
  • Engineered a Python based backend system for an event ticketing aggregator launching in Q4 2021.
  • Built ETL pipeline targeting PostgreSQL via SQLAlchemy and aggregating event, inventory data across 7 ticketing companies.
  • Delivery of aggregate data via FastAPI to NextJS frontend application, and Algolia search integration.
  • Implemented Terraform based orchestration of applications & associated networking / infrastructure on AWS via VPC, ALB, ECS Fargate (Docker), ElastiCache (Redis)

AIG

Technology Analyst
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
  • Consulted on technical solutions with several teams over a large period of organizational change, starting at the AIG Innovation Center.
  • Established an internal video production house at AIG Internal Communications, traveling to film and edit pieces highlighting innovative segments of the business.
  • In the AIG CIO Leadership Group, consulted on change management strategies that involved internal tools or services.

Education & Projects

Rutgers University

Sept 2012 - Jun 2016
BS Computer Science | Creative Writing | Digital Filmmaking

    Entrain

    Nov 2020 - Current
    Long term project implementing a bio-motivated model of rhythm perception using spiking neural networks, based on the induction effect of resonating oscillators.

      Miami Bean

      Dec 2017 - Current
      I design and perform realtime visual art installations to accompany live music.

        Tools & Languages

        • AWS
        • Terraform
        • Python
        • FastAPI
        • Serverless
        • SQLAlchemy
        • PostgreSQL
        • Docker
        • Figma
        • Resolume
        • Adobe CC
        • Node.js