# Keith Warter > Senior Software Engineer @ Kinetic Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/keithwarter I am a software engineer with over fifteen years of experience building software in various industries. I have worked on everything from small business websites to large scale web applications and embedded systems for factories and robots. I’m passionate about helping build great things that make the world run a little better everyday. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Kinetic Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area • Working on the Solana APIs and Rust/Anchor based smart contracts responsible for optimizing and executing swap transactions on DEXs such as Raydium, Meteora, Orca, and Pump AMM etc. • Lead the development of the company's v0 web application for visualizing crypto markets and executing swaps on the Solana blockchain. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Hyphen Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Was responsible for the design and implementation of POS (Point of Sale) integrations that pulled order data from various restaurants so that the orders could ultimately be built by the robotic makeline. • Learned Rust and Built several of the integral software features on the robotic makeline including the machine configuration server, order item tracker, printer driver, and the dispenser server, which established the design pattern still used for generic loop-able motor routines that control the dispensing of food onto bowls. • Also had the opportunity to build out the Partner API end to end which exposed the ability for our partners to build out their own UI integrations with the machine via REST endpoints and Webhooks. This work was critical in allowing Chipotle Mexican Grill, one of our biggest investors and partners, to utilize our machine. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States • Joined the Vehicle Applications team to work on a set of factory manufacturing applications and internal tools to help ramp up production of the R1 and RPV programs. • Worked with leadership, general assembly engineers, OTA team, hardware team, and other stakeholders to create hardware and factory software integrations that could help speed up cycle times during the production of the R1 and RPV programs. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States • Joined the Digital Technology team to establish the first React/Typescript application for accepting vehicle preorders which grew into the Configurator and Account Applications and many internal tools. • Established the authentication and identity management strategy on the Account App, including the initial email signup blast converting preorder holders to account holders. • Helped start the first shared components and shared component storybook instance that is now used company wide across both customer facing applications as well as internal tools. • Built out the Order Manager internal tool end to end which is now used by customer service agents, Rivian Guides, and across retail locations to view and edit orders. • Built out the Fleet Order Manager internal tool within FleetOs in collaboration with Amazon which is now used by both Amazon and other enterprise fleet customers. ### UI Platform Engineer @ Crux Informatics Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Worked on the UI team to design, wireframe, prototype, and build the original platform product and internal tools using React, Flow, Redux, Saga, Jest, Adobe Illustrator, Balsamiq, ES7 and other cutting edge technology. • Utilizing Agile software development systems and continuous integration to organize sprints and develop new prototypes and features rapidly. ### Software Development Engineer @ Crux Informatics Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Worked on the legacy express app on both the front and back end using JavaScript, ES6, Node.js, Express, Pug, and Google Cloud Datastore NoSQL Database. • Lead the initiative to establish code quality and style standards for the engineering team, built out the ESLint scripts and code coverage reporting systems with Istanbul, and lead efforts to expand unit and automated API test coverage using relevant technologies such as Mocha and Chai, Sinon, and Proxyquire. ### Full Stack Developer @ Exchange Collective Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Oakland, Ca • Worked on the ExchangeCollective Web Dashboard for their “Save the Sale” App. • Collaborated on the new efforts to redesign the IOS App with React Native. • Node.js, Sails.js, and MySQL on the backend, and jQuery, React, vanilla JS, CSS, and HTML on the frontend. ### Full Stack Developer @ ProductMatchr Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New Orleans Area • Collaborated on a site redesign to improve general mobile responsiveness and the UI of the landing page. • Worked on the redesign of the sidebar to improve sorting functionality and the UX across the marketplace. • The front end is built with ERB, HTML, Javascript, JQuery, CSS, and Sass, and the back end is built with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Nokogiri and Postgresql. ### Program Coordinator @ We Teach Science Foundation Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | 405 Primrose Rd #200, Burlingame, CA 94010 • Launched our Google for Non-Profits account and collaborated with web developers, marketing firm, and other cross-functional teams to improve our site Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and increase site traffic. • Launched and managed the program at three school sites across the Bay Area and led mentor recruitment and mentoring workshops. ### Curriculum Designer & Teacher @ Teach For America Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Greater New Orleans Area • Selected from over 40,000 applicants to teach in under-resourced public schools across the United States and taught middle and high school sciences at Benjamin Banneker Elementary School and C.F Rowley Alternative School in New Orleans, Louisiana. • Designed high quality lessons and analyzed student performance data to continuously improve the science curriculum for students. • Contributed quality instruction materials to the open-source curriculum community. • Engaged in rigorous professional development sessions addressing the design and implementation of quality curricula and instruction as well as social and political issues and effective leadership. ## Education ### Bachelors of Arts in Psychology University of California, Berkeley Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/keithwarter --- Source: https://flows.cv/keithwarter JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/keithwarter/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22