Kenneth Keegan Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, Ca

Pop is an iOS app-first company specializing in chat and social marketplaces. The app contains a sticker market where artists can offer stickers, which when used downstream in WhatsApp, iMessage, or our own chat grants them revenue sharing from subscriptions to the app. More recently Pop has become chat-focused, implementing a community-oriented real-time chat infrastructure to connect users from different geographies and demographics. The infrastructure runs on AWS services, including RDS and Elasticache and uses Pusher pub/sub for real-time updates. Stripe powers the marketplace and artist payments, and subscriptions are handled using Apple's ecosystem.

Venice, Ca

Cooler was an iOS app that allows users to capture gifs and videos from any moment in a television show. The app utilized audio content recognition (ACR) to listen to what the user was watching and sync them with the appropriate moment of the show. The platform processed over 8000 episodes of television across 80 shows encompassing close to a billion video frames. The platform had an extensive API serving both mobile and web clients, providing real time updates via pub/sub, and handled multiple queues and caching layers to deliver frame-accurate gifs and mp4s to the user in 1-2 seconds and api responses in 50-100ms. A social layer added commenting, liking, following, feeds, and notifications.I architected the Cooler platform over the course of two years using mostly AWS services including EC2, EBS, SQS, RDS, SWF, S3, and Cloudfront. Workflow tasks (episode processing and gif/mp4 creation) were written in python/bash for FFmpeg and the REST API was built in PHP using Laravel. Continuous deployment was used in the development cycle with unit and integration testing.Cooler was ultimately acquired by TVTime and the patents, content, and ingestion algorithm absorbed into their company.

Lead engineer for Society6.com; at various points core member of the eHow.com, eHow Now, eHow Spark, and Creativebug.com engineering or acquisition teams. Also part of the team that founded and developed the company's engineering internship program.

Designed and managed web-based curriculum platform used by over 15,000 students and 500 instructors.