Curt Siffert
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorCurt Siffert is a seasoned Principal Architect and founder of Keenworks who blends strategy, architecture, and hands-on engineering to deliver scalable distributed systems. With 10+ years of experience leading JVM-based architectures, he specializes in microservices, SOA, and monolith decomposition using Scala, Akka, Java, Spring, and reactive patterns, often in AWS environments. He excels at surfacing strategic drivers, aligning teams with business goals, and turning complex, stateful codebases into maintainable, testable systems through FP, refactoring, and robust automation. At Everyday Health Group he steered a greenfield project across NodeJS, GraphQL, AWS messaging, and CDN optimizations while mentoring teams and shaping site reliability metrics. A longtime remote-first leader, he emphasizes clear communication of the 'why' and has guided diverse teams through architectural transitions from monoliths to reactive microservices. He also brings an unexpected dimension with a background in film scoring, reflecting a knack for bringing structure and rhythm to complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
command-line-tool10
nvm10
streaming10
javascript10
reactive10
browser10
akka10
pm210
high-performance10
concurrent10
static-site-generator10
java10
lts10
nodejs10
cytoscapejs10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tunesmith/covid-dashboard
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:903 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
tunesmith/adnd-combat-tools
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 69 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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