Shaun Keenan

Experience

Principal Architect 2016 - 2022 (about 6 years)

Drive architecture process & engineering SDLC (technical strategy)
Define product strategy and horizon 2-3 architecture plan to enable the business to successfully... more

Evernym

Advisor 2021 - Present (over 5 years)

Gap

Staff Cloud Architect 2014 - 2016 (over 2 years)

- Architecture & strategy for Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployment & usage best practices
- Built YAML-based Jenkins pipeline, replacing old ElectricCloud pipeline... more

Salesforce

Team Lead/Product Owner 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)

- Team lead & product owner for an internal product team at Salesforce.
- Responsible for working with stakeholders & internal clients to define requirements for... more

Lead System Engineer 2009 - 2013 (over 3 years)

- Led a team of Linux systems engineers, acting as engineer, architect, and co-product owner
- Worked with client teams to define requirements, architecture, and finally... more

Bounteous

Chief Technology Officer 2025 - Present (about 1 year)

Syncroness

Advisor 2025 - Present (over 1 year)

Emergence Software

Advisor 2024 - Present (almost 2 years)

Technical Advisor and Operating Partner specializing in software and cloud technologies, with a focus on Kubernetes and containerization. Skilled at performing technical due... more

Zencore

Principal Cloud Architect 2022 - Present (about 4 years)

I lead a team of SWEs, Cloud Engineers, and architects, both scoping engagements, and delivering on them.
We deliver engagements in the following areas:
* Cloud Infrastructure... more

Outlier AI

Founder 2025 (2 months)

Gen

Software Engineering Advisor 2021 - 2023 (over 2 years)

Advise on architecture and organizational patterns
Implemented ADR (Architecture Decision Record) process for the engineering organization
Expert advice on event-based... more

IPsoft

Lead System Engineer 2008 - 2009 (over 1 year)

- Support production sites for gap.com, oldnavy.com, bananarepublic.com, piperlime.com
- Led a team of 3 on-site engineers, acted as liaison to the NOC, and customer liaison
betweer... more

Aon

Senior Linux System Engineer 2007 - 2008 (about 1 year)

- Built a change control system from the ground up
- Automated OS installation on a standard package set
- Maintain bare-metal and ESX server environment, as well as... more

Hotwire

Systems Engineer 2005 - 2007 (over 1 year)

- Maintain ~200 Solaris 8/9 systems (app, web, dns, mail, ldap, db, etc) across prod, preprod, staging, qa, dev
- Part of a 3-person 24x7x365 pager rotation
- Maintain... more

Symantec

Software QA Engineer 2005 (8 months)

- Performed software QA testing for SFRAC ("Storage Foundations for Oracle RAC") Linux versions 4.1, 4.1MP1, 4.1MP2, and 5.0 on x86_64 and Itanium systems
- Built a kickstart/AutoYAST... more

Employee

Salesforce, Gap, Symantec, Hotwire, Aon, IPsoft, Gen, Outlier AI, Zencore, Emergence Software, Syncroness, Bounteous, Sauce Labs

Advisor

Evernym

Education

About

Achievements

Led public cloud transformation and architecture shift to Google Cloud
Due Diligence for multiple acquisitions
Integrated acquisitions into product line
Own Google partner relationship, negotiated multi-million dollar partnership with Google
Led reliability initiative to improve from ~99.5 to 99.9+

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Skills

Architect Continuous Integration Strategic Planning Cloud Computing Distributed Systems Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform AWS Cloud Services Python Go Unix helm Vagrant ASP.NET Angular.JS Linux C# SQL Grafana AI YAML Apache Tomcat Jenkins Domain Name System Javascript Microservices Node.js VMware LDAP MySQL Perl IBM DB2 PHP Apache Kafka Java iOS Windows Gradle WebSphere Oracle Database Cloud Foundry Red Hat Linux Bash JVM Prometheus Generative AI Terraform Azure Swift Docker Shell Scripting AWS

Shaun Keenan

Passionate platform architect and technologist with experience growing organizations and scaling systems

Led public cloud transformation and architecture shift to Google Cloud Due Diligence for multiple acquisitions Integrated acquisitions into product line Own Google partner relationship, negotiated multi-million dollar partnership with Google Led reliability initiative to improve from ~99.5 to 99.9+

Led public cloud transformation and architecture shift to Google Cloud
Due Diligence for multiple acquisitions
Integrated acquisitions into product line
Own Google partner relationship, negotiated multi-million dollar partnership with Google
Led reliability initiative to improve from ~99.5 to 99.9+