# Keith Heacock > Software Engineer at PayPal Location: Los Gatos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/keithheacock I am a Frontend Engineer with 4+ years of experience. I am passionate about understanding users’ needs and creating delightful experiences. I excel at understanding and extending abstractions. Although I currently work with the Frontend, I am comfortable with the full stack ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2023 – Present Technical Lead and Principle Developer of the application responsible for intake and routing of PayPal’s back-office Customer Adjacent tasks. Technologies/Tools: Node.js, npm, Express, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Webpack, Babel, SAML Authentication, Redis-like KV Cache, Swagger/OpenAPI, Jenkins, Hosted Kubernetes (EKS/GKE-like), BigQuery, First Party Tracking/Observability, Tableau, DataDog, Proxy/Federated delivery architecture, Async task execution/pipeline architecture ### Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Frontend engineer responsible for integrating Suspicious Activity disclosure preparation with FinCEN (USA), MAS (Singapore), and BNM (Malaysia) ### Software Engineer @ WorkSpan Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Foster City, California, United States Developed for the core product in Python and Typescript with a Google Datastore (NoSQL) database. Designed and built a full-stack suite of support tools secured with JWT enabling engineers and support staff to quickly respond to customer requests. Developed and maintained a RESTful integration with a customer’s internal reimbursement service. Organized and led a bi-weekly knowledge transfer meeting with the Frontend Team. ### Engineer Intern @ WorkSpan Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Foster City, California, United States WorkSpan is the Ecosystem Cloud to drive joint sales, marketing and solutions with partners. Workspan gives you a single source of truth, bringing together your ecosystem partners on a digital platform to quickly deploy and operationalize your partner initiatives. You can now drive revenue with your partners from Leads to Wins in real-time and deliver solutions from Idea to Launch with speed. WorkSpan is a privately held company backed by Mayfield, M12 (Microsoft Ventures) and Redline Capital. Current customers include SAP, Google, Microsoft, Accenture, VMware, HPE, Citrix, Capgemini, SUSE, Cisco, SAS, DellEMC, and many others. ### Math Teacher @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Quality Assurance Intern @ V5 Systems Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Math Teacher @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Business Development Intern @ Accelion Health Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Constructed a data warehouse of sales data that allowed for automation of a previously manual process. In doing, increased sales preparation lead time form 3 days to 2 hours while also dramatically increasing data granularity. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/keith-heacock --- Source: https://flows.cv/keithheacock JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/keithheacock/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22