Keagan Ladds Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

As a Senior Software Engineer at Tesla, I am part of a lean, globally distributed team responsible for Tesla’s vehicle servicing management platform. This platform is critical to daily operations at hundreds of service centers worldwide, supporting scheduling, part ordering, activity tracking, customer communication, invoicing, and billing. It also powers the service scheduling features available to Tesla owners through the Tesla App. My role has provided extensive experience in developing and maintaining a large-scale, microservice-based application that processes tens of millions of requests per hour. This application is built using C# .NET Core with an Angular frontend, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.Key responsibilities include:• Developing key functionality for the platform, from architecture and design to deployment, while ensuring optimal performance and alignment with internal and external teams• Identifying and resolving bugs across the entire application, regardless of ownership• Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, validate architecture, and assess performance and maintainability• Mentoring and supporting interns and junior team membersA notable achievement was reducing 10 million unnecessary daily API calls by implementing caching improvements, including the use of MessagePack, while decreasing Redis storage and network throughput by 70%.

North Holland, Netherlands

As an R&D Software Engineer at NICE, I contributed to the development of Microsoft Teams recording capabilities for a leading financial compliance recording solution. My role primarily focused on developing and maintaining back-end services in C# for both on-prem and cloud deployments, as well as building serverless solutions using Azure Functions.Key responsibilities included:• Developing and maintaining back-end services in C# for various deployment environments• Building serverless solutions using Azure Functions• Ensuring code quality through peer reviewsAs Scrum Master, I was responsible for:• Facilitating smooth, organized sprints for the team• Coordinating with stakeholders and other teams to ensure alignment on features and goals

Noord Holland, Netherlands

As a software engineer at CoNet I worked on several C# projects, ranging from a data integration service to improve project management efficiency to an edge deployed solution to stream hundreds of thousands of daily telemetry messages to Azure. My primary role was architecting and developing applications but I also served as the team's Release Manager. My most notable achievement is being the primary developer for the telemetry streaming application deployed to several Unilever factories worldwide.My key responsibilities were:• Assisting with the architecture development of new applications• Ensuring the quality of the code our team produces through the reviewing of pull requests• Ensuring that all our applications are build and deployed automatically using Azure Pipelines• Organizing the company's Azure subscription(s), including enforcing policies, resource tagging, and monitoring budgetsMy responsibilities as release manager were:• Ensuring that the preparation of release artifacts is done automatically using Azure Pipelines• Ensuring that applications can be deployed to a customer with little to no human interaction• Ensuring that only tested and approved application changes are deployed to the production environmentWorking at CoNet has taught me invaluable soft skills such as team leadership, perseverance, and time management. I strive to continuously learn and CoNet has provided me with the room to do so by allowing me to work on various proof of concepts using Azure IoT, Machine Learning, and other up and coming technologies.

North Holland, Netherlands

Working as an engineering resource on both internal projects as well as being seconded to clients for longer-term projects.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I worked as a junior instrumentation engineer, spending most of my timewith Hatch on-site as part of the cold-commissioning team. This involved beingresponsible for the commissioning of new instruments.Projects• Anglo Platinum - Anglo Platinum Converting Process (600+ Hours)

Pretoria, South Africa

Ladds Technologies was a local software development company specializing in web and mobile applications. We developed solutions for a number of small businesses.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Research into millimeter wave technology as well as general microelectronics. • Intern for Head of Department in Microelectronics, Dr. Tinus Stander• Co-authored a paper that was presented at EuCAP 2016 in Davos

Pretoria Area, South Africa

HazeSoft is a local company that specialises in application development and also has interests in all aspect of technology.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Designed, developed and maintained Windows applications.

General bar management such as stock take and cashing up. My main responsibility was front of house serving customers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: EBIT Faculty House

National Senior Certificate - Grade 12, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates

Activities and Societies: Waterpolo, Cross Country, Rugby, Programming Club